Ernest Hemingway had a rather personal way to describe first drafts. To paraphrase, he said all of them are like, ahem, biological waste.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the...
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
Eschew evil and it`s machinations.
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.
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...
If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.
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...