I want to cry but I don’t. I don’t. There are pieces of yourself, so many pieces of yourself, that, once you give away, you cannot get back again.
Pragmatism is good prevention for problems.
You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
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?
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
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...
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
It is always healthy to be honest.