If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
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?
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.