You don’t have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself
You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!
Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.
I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.
Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn’t understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn’t much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
Rachel: You’re a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren’t human! They’re half Greek god!…They don’t seem to care.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
After all, it’s all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little….like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
There are no random acts…We are all connected…You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…
Sacrfice,” the captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.
How would your life be different if…You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day…You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
It was beautiful in a harsh I’m-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?’Clawing at the roof of her coffin.
It was a trap after all,” Alric said. He turned to Royce. “My apologies for doubting your sound paranoia.
But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!
Are there weapons in a bookstore?”It’s a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read,’ Monty replied blandly.The Crows cocked his head. ‘I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger.
I’m not sure if there’s one right place I’m supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I’d give a second try in a heartbeat.
On the first day Coraline’s family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.
Yeah, well, food’s one of the five exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfigurations, said Ron, to general astonishment.
Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. Yeah, here’s a rare grocery list, Dan muttered. Wow.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….
Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I’ve got big plans, so break time is over.
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
I hate girls that giggle all the time… You hate any girl that David looks at.
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves.“Where are they?” he demanded. “Who do I kill?”“No killing!” Annabeth ordered. “Just defend the ship!”“But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments.”“Yeah,” said Harry, “but you, unlike me, are a git.
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most men remain average; males are better at hating things that can’t hate them back (e.g., lawnmowers, cats, the Denver Broncos, et cetera). They don’t see the big picture.
Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going to pan out for me.
The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don’t know, but until your mom dies it seems like all the other women in your life can never be more than just your mistress.