I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.
Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we’ve opened their cage
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
There’s a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they’ll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn’t someone. And it wasn’t something better.
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.
I love when I can reboot people when they are being mean to others…
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk – Chapter 19, Page 122
There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.
There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It’s sometimes difficult to know which is which.
The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.
I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.
My mom used to say that faith and fear can’t exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.
As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.
I hope you can someday forgive me.”I forgive you now.
To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.
I don’t think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
I don’t want to go to Peru.”How do you know? You’ve never been there.”I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure-or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that’s where you will find success.
I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.
Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future,” he said.
Why is it that good always has to fight an uphill battle?”I thought for a moment, then said, “I don’t know. Maybe that’s the point. Good things are higher up.
All that’s required for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
Often times, the greatest peace comes of surrender.
Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood
Truth is patient. It can afford to be for eventually it will have its way.
The truist indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for.
The warrior who goes off to battle should not boast as the one who returns from it.
fear doesn’t listen to reason it takes it own counsel
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.
The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer.
I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.
Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.
A man’s worth isn’t measured by a bank register or diploma… It’s about integrity
Knowing your self-worth isn’t something others can validate. You either believe it or you don’t.
I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat.
The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.
Oftentimes it’s the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we’re expecting them and oftentimes when we’re not even paying attention.
I sighed. “Now what do I do?” He leaned against my wall. “What do you want to do?” “Since when has that mattered?” “It’s always mattered. It doesn’t mean you’ll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That’s what defines you.
Where is the best place to hide a penny? It is in a jar of pennies.
Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.
The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s kind of the same as being president of the United States – it’s not gonna happen.