She wasn't sure what she wanted to do, except that she knew that if she fooled around for long enough, without fretting, or nagging herself, she'd find out.
So, have we solved the secret of happiness? I believe so, he said. Are you going to tell me? Yes. Ready? Ready. Be satisfied. That's it? Be grateful. That's it? For what you have. For the love you rec...
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened
Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.
Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.
Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
The 15 Principles of Life1. Count your blessings.2. Read good books.3. Discover your gifts.4. Chase your dreams.5. Learn from everyone.6. Forgive your enemies.7. Protect your friends.8. Love your fami...
The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was....
The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are de...
The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just le...
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.
The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees
The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplici...
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