Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one’s true self.
It’s amazing – you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I’m pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
What do years have to do with age?
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.