It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.
The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Here’s an easy way to figure out if you’re in a cult: If you’re wondering whether you’re in a cult, the answer is yes.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
…there’s not enough of anything to go around except people and death.
Money is flowing past you all the time like an invisible breeze. The trick is to get some to slide into your pockets and stay.
What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it’s in mortal danger.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
In the 24 hours you have, there is no spare time. Use each hour sparingly.
Where do one’s fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?
My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
Understand one thing – the time is the only actual currency you have. Even though it might be daunting for some people, it’s the ultimate truth.
She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn’t always have to get it right. It’s okay to look back, even as you move forward.
This book is dedicated to my children, Pi, Coco, and Jay. When your grandkids are old enough to read this book, tell them how much I loved you.
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it’s not really forgiveness. It’s Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you’re trying to live up to but you’re just using it against yourself as a reason why you’re not okay.
Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
Kebanyakan orang dapat bertahan hidup hanya jika mereka dapat melupakan realitas ini dan memusatkan diri ke yang lain: ke karier mereka, ke investasi, gelar, anak atau apa saja yang terlihat bertambah banyak.
I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.
There’s no advantage to hurrying through life.” -Shikamaru Nara
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.
Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?-(The Beginning and the End)
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
My mother always wanted to live near the water, she said. She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.
Hope could not outlast the breather. Love, however . . . Love was something not even death could conquer, because at the end of everything, even life, he was hers.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Ah, ye brethren, that God whom I created was human work and human madness, like all the Gods!
Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
Yesterday I learned that hours are nothing but bodiesWe kill upon confronting,Or perhaps they are the onesThat backstab us as soon as they are behind…
True siblings are bound together by far more essential things than blood, while more times than many blood isn’t thicker than water.
Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way otherthan just getting older.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
You’re a monster.Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise?No, just a medal. The budget isn’t inexhaustable.
One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us — what happens with the rest?
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I’d been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale’d have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.