There is something more – the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.
The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‘I’m a representative. ’
I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.
When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back.
I always felt, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK.
Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.
You build your ‘COURAGE MUSCLE’ daily, by being courageous in little things. Just do right...
We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.
I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.
I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.
The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That’s what truth does.
Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything-ever ything.
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path.