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...
All sorrows in life stem from the lack of cake. If you had your own cake, you wouldn't bother trying to take away the other person's cake! And, if the cake you had were beautiful enough, you wouldn't...
I'm not sure why the saying goes..."be careful what you wish for"...it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wi...
Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.
Embrace what is, steer toward what may yet be.
The people in our life is like the mountain and the river. Some people will stay as others will leave. Some will travel away and make their way back to you.
Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
The fact is very few men live harmoniously, while most of us survive miraculously!
Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.
Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.
… one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back – that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street.
Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
It's not about quoting somebody else's words - Its about creating yourself!
Despite your pains and your problems you can still be kind to others as they are not responsible for your misery.
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
May the Good Lord always watch over you and fill your days with hope.
Do not yearn to be popular; be exquisite. Do not desire to be famous; be loved. Do not take pride in being expected; be palpable, unmistakable.
I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it's still loved, or its memory is (it m...