When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: "Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.
They are lonely. I’m not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.
Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.