It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
Fake it 'till you make it.
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We canβt escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
