Kids are kids and not little adults. They’re watching and listening to you all the time. They’re figuring out the game plan but still don’t know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they’ll respect you for it.
Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.
Living isn’t always red bows and birthday balloons.
When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.
Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.
Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.
Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.
Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility-but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don’t care. Old is when you don’t want to dance anymore. Old is when you don’t want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.
Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.
Just because you’re breathing, doesn’t mean you’re alive.
Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.
Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.
Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.