Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.
He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.
Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.
You can't be spontaneous within reason.
The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.
Face the truth or the truth will face you!
Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true] Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.
Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!
المرآة تعكس بدقة متناهية دون أن تخطئ ابداَ . لأنها وبكل بساطة لا تفكر
One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.
time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion.
I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.
Your greatest path of influence is love.