Don’t wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you’re best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
All paths are present, always… and we can but choose among them.
Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together… then you’ll hear the sound of your soul
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
If you want to catch beasts you don’t see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.
It just has to be.
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
I ended my first book with the words ‘no answer.’ I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you’re not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you’re the one who must decide how you handle it.
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.
There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.
…try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don’t come easily.
Of course, a sign doesn’t mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. “To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful.” No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we will
make mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.
Skies are crying,
I am watching,
Catching teardrops in my hands.
Only silence, as it’s ending,
Like we never had a chance.
Do you have to make me feel
Like there’s nothing left of me?
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.