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Advice is either a relief or a hard truth we don't want to hear. When someone tells us what we want to hear as help, it is a relief. It makes us think we are right.
Why do I have to Be better if I have all I want here with me. Why must I keep getting better when I'm as good as I want to be.
They’d lied to me and betrayed me, leaving jagged edges where all my trust had been, and I didn’t like or respect or admire them any more, but still I loved them. I had no choice.
The wiser the man, The fewer his words. All the knowledge in the world, you can have. Being wise is what makes knowledge get to the point, less words, less explaining.
Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality.
If a consequence of an action is foreseen but not intended, then that consequence is a side effect.
You call me a dreamer in a derogatory tone, as if to say I am lazy or unrealistic. Rather I would say that I am a realist, just not realities other people know or see.
You know nothing is perfect, well maybe God. We don't know if being perfect is good or bad. I think God put us on Earth so we could make mistakes fix them go back and change them again.
All men dream but not equally.
There’s a certain kind of pain that can numb you. There’s a type of freedom that can tie you down. Sometimes the unexplained can define you. And sometimes the silence is the only sound.
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 3.
The paradox of our times in history is that we have bigger buildings, but smaller souls; larger highways, but narrower minds. We spend more, but we have less. We buy more, but we have less joy.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.