Love so joyfully and freely given can never be taken away. It is never truly gone.
But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I’ve heard it said.
Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.
How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.
I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.
But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.
For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.
Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.
…to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.
There is a tale…It tells of the days when a blight hung over our land. Nothing prospered. Nothing flourished. Not even zucchini would grow.
Soon the grizzly was joined by a brown bear, a sun bear, and a beaver suffering from an identity crisis of magnificent proportion
The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.
But even the most bitter fruit can contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
A home is a place one’s heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.
That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.
Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.