The you you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.
The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.
Through challenge and difficulty, we learn to see life differently than before.
Today I am even richer.
Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel...