If you complain about small calamities, Allah will give you great calamities.
Be that as it may, it’s all I have to work with. Clutching these faded, fading, imperfect memories to my breast, I go on writing this book with all the desperate intensity of a starving man sucking on bones.
It has been everywhere, my happiness – when my mother sang for me to dance, when my father took my hand to keep me safe – but it was such a small, plain thing that I mistook it for something ordinary and failed to see. We expect our happiness to come with a sign and bells, but it.
Good People bring out the good in other people.
When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.
We all produce excuses and negative emotions involuntarily. Guess what? That’s never going to change.
He’s got some obsession with feathers. Sings lots of Bon Jovi too.
An artist’s job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master – be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain.
Do it now. Sometimes ‘Later’ becomes ‘Never’
I hope it snows soon. Christmas is so much more magical with snow.
Too, if you’re a true contemplative, your life and words will overflow with spiritual wisdom, compassion, and fruitful insight, because you’re sure to measure out what you say carefully and calmly, eschewing lies and speaking without the shrill pretense of hypocrites.
Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.
I feel like i am parked diagonally in a parallel universe.
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.
Descartes was very interested in anatomy and physiology and regarded a tiny organ in the center of the brain, called the pineal gland, as the principal seat of the soul. That gland, he believed, was the place where all our thoughts are formed, the wellspring of our free will.
Instead, I hold that day deep within myself, as a reminder that love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
La felicidad no es una vida sin problemas, sino la fortaleza para superar los problemas que se presenten. No existe tal cosa como una vida libre de problemas; las dificultades son inevitables. Pero la manera en la que.
There are two types of teachers. The ones who teach you to use the text to find answers, and the ones who teach you to use the text to find another whole world of answers.
People are hungry for climate action that does more than asks you to send emails to your climate-denying congressperson or update your Facebook status with some clever message about fossil fuels. Now, a new antiestablishment movement has broken with Washington’s embedded elites and has energized a new generation to stand in front of the bulldozers and coal trucks.