All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.
Those three things – autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward – are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
Don’t marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!
For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.
Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.
But I will not run. I wouldn’t be standing here if I’d quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.
The past can’t hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that’s not the real you. That’s not who you are inside.
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t it is of no use.
You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.
Do not wait: the time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
…Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel’s hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.
Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am
We do not get to choose when in our lives we feel pain,” said Matthew. “It comes when it comes, and we try to remember, even though we cannot imagine a day when it will release its hold on us, that all pain fades. All misery passes. Humanity is drawn to light, not darkness.
It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.
Makakapili ka ng lugar na uupuan mo, pero hindi mo mapipili ang taong uupo sa puwang sa tabi mo… Ganyan ang senaryo sa bus. Ganyan din sa pag-ibig… Lalong ‘di mo kontrolado kung kelan siya bababa.
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you’re alive to see?
I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.
Are you on our side…and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you.
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
It’s just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it’s time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. and if u don’t play u can’t win.
If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently…
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.
No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.