Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would neve...
Mas vale vivir tu propio destino imperfectamente, que vivir a la perfección el destino de otra persona
Lõppude lõpuks on iga inimene just see, mida ta mõtleb. Sinu tunded on su mõtete orjad ja sa ise oled oma tunnete ori.
Loyal Hanneke, Alma said fondly, let us be honest with ourselves. Who will ever put a ring on these fishwife’s hands of mine? Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?
Love is like that is a deep well with steep sides. Once you fall in, that's it. You will love that person always.
Just remember- all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
It’s the same with relationships, I think. People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another pe...
It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today...
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it i...
In ancient Greek, the word for the highest degree of human happiness is eudaimonia, which basically means well-daemoned—that is, nicely taken care of by some external divine creative spirit guide.
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.
Il bel far niente.
If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.
If I were going to have such a short visit on earth, I had to do everything possible to experience it now.
Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.
I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether
I wanted to call a time out, to demand that everybody just STOP until I could understand everything.
I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK because he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And...
I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation that can take a long time to heal. The longer you were married, or the rougher the amputation, the har...