I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
(a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is...
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but...
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing...
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
When you have come to the edge of all that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen,’ the Warmaster had told him. ‘And w...
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition and settled upon the organ of conviction, where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be d...
The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, TAKE IT PERSONALLY...
No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all...
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply.