If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There’s life in a nutshell.
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, “God, I love you” and looked to the sky and really meant it. “I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.” To the children and the innocent it’s all the same.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.
Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For,
May your arms Never Tire.
Sit in a room and read–and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life, … If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.
So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they are impossible.
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.