You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.
If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all…
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.
Criticism – however valid or intellectually engaging – tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don’t need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They’re not just lines. They’re histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause … In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.
Maybe we shouldn’t be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better
To watch me, while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I’m standing on my feet.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
I close my eyes
and I can see a better day.
I close my eyes
and pray
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity…Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still a child.
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.