Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder—the discovery of yourself.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
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...
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family.
Do we not each dream of dreams? Do we not dance on the notes of lost
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.