It's true, she said. Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.
All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
You may delay, but time will not.
The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.