With a rhythmic sound of languid water lapping hypnotically against a beach nearby.
Bellybuttons are our link with the past.
A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.
Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.
Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnit...
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
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.