No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
In every disaster, in every blessing, ask, Why me? There's a reason, of course, there's an answer.
We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of...
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again
Look in the mirror and one thing is sure: what we see is not who we are.
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is reality. That is the truth. What we make of it is up to us, as the pa...
For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
Every choice is made in the uncaring blind, no guarantees from the world around us.
Can miles truly separate us from friends? If you want to be with Rae, aren't you already there?
But one creature said at last, I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging...
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Win by losing. Before your outer walls break, as break they must, build an inner place to protect your truth. Protect that you are infinite life, choosing its playground; protect that the world you kn...
Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.
What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?