When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, and pour out peace.
I’ve had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I’ve got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way…I’m in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody’.
I hate you.”
I love you.”
You’re a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have.”
I’m trying not to be.
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!
Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
Berhenti bercita-cita adalah tragedi terbesar dalam hidup manusia
A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.
In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality… First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much. (…) It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
That’s everyone’s dream, isn’t it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.
Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
The adventure of life is to learn.
The purpose of life is to grow.
The nature of life is to change.
The challenge of life is to overcome.
The essence of life is to care.
The opportunity of like is to serve.
The secret of life is to dare.
The spice of life is to befriend.
The beauty of life is to give.
These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.
What if I mess up?”
“Oh, you will. You’ll mess up, you’ll make mistakes, you’ll break things. Some you’ll be able to piece together, and others you’ll lose. That’s all a given. But there’s only one thing you have to do for me.”
“What’s that?”
“Stay alive long enough to mess up again.
All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t,’ — which is just another way of saying that you can’t.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
If I’ve learned one lesson from all that’s happened to me, it’s that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve given up on you.
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it’s not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.