A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
You can curse the sun a thousand times, but cannot keep it from shining, even for a day.
Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.
True riches belong to those who shun false ones.
Outer beauty you see with your eyes, but inner beauty you only see with your heart.
If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always.
It is because of pain that you value pleasure, sorrow that you value joy, despair that you value hope, war that you value peace, and hate that you value love.
Let the beauty radiate from inside your heart to the outside world.
Peace gives you the world, laughter gives you the sky, joy gives you the world, and love gives you the universe.
Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.
Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
You're not going to get what you want out of life till you figure out what it wants out of you.
Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at...
My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete.
We are too focused in our differences to see how much we already share.
I will ignore those who ridicule me.I will ignore those who undermine me.I will ignore those who undervalue me.I will ignore those who envy me.I will ignore those who disparage me.I will ignore those...
First, fear will mock you, then fear will taunt you, then fear will oppose you, and if you ignore it, only then will it flee from you.
So I can curse my pain all I want. I can try to leave it at the door. But maybe I should say grace, gnaw on its bones and thank it for nourishment instead. Maybe for now it's what's keeping me alive....
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.