What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….
I’ll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.
If I shot an arrow and thought about an ass, would it surprise you if it hit Erik?
To progress in life, I don’t focus on how much I have done but on how much I have yet to do.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.
If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all.
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I’ve forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I’m ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it’s never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.
Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow
Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action….no matter what. So you’re afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you’re trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!
Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you’ll see the world
If I’m not mistaken…
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure…
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.
The Obama doctrine of ignoring international issues and claiming it’s none of the U.S.’ business is a philosophy that has allowed Russia, Iran, and China to step up and take the lead.
All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?— Riley Poole
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.
Life is short but love your loved ones. Love them, kiss them every day because you don’t know what’s going to happen.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
There’s gon’ be some stuff you gon’ see
that’s gon’ make it hard to smile in the future.
But through whatever you see,
through all the rain and the pain,
you gotta keep your sense of humor.
You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.
Remember that.
The need for intimacy with the Creator never left us; it was embedded in our very nature.
God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.
Sometimes the sins you haven’t committed are all you have left to hold onto.
We repeatedly tell patients we are not in a hurry; there are no trains to catch and we don’t care when the baby comes, only how! A doctor who is in a hurry does not belong in the field of obstetrics. As my chief pointed out, ‘An obstetrician should have a big rear end and the good sense to sit calmly thereupon and let nature take its course.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.