We are so unused to emotion that we mistake any depth of feeling for sadness, any sense of the unknown for fear, and any sense of peace for boredom.
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.
Hope is a waking dream.
Before you're given what you want, you'll first be tested with what you don't really want.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her.
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality.