[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others,
Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
WATCH out for your surroundings, UPGRADE your mindset and keep FOCUS.
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
Today I am even richer.