It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.
To the thief, everyone’s a crook. To the liar, everyone’s a fraud. The curse of all sin is the mirror of false perception it traps us in.
Grief is a powerful force that settles in the heart like a dark, heavy fog. It was familiar territory to me.
If a problem has a solution, to worry is no use, for in the end it will be solved. If a problem has no solution, there is no reason to worry, because it cannot be solved.
Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they’re gone.
I’ve learned that the greatest threat to love is not circumstance but the absence of attentions. For we do not neglect others because we have ceased to love; rather we ceased to love others because we have neglected them. I’ve learned that each day is a miracle unearned. I’ve learned that while life is ephemeral-a vapor- LOVE is not. In short, I have learned what matters and what does not.
That which doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger,” Mike said. “Except bears. Bears will kill you.
We don’t appreciate the things that come easy to us as much as we do the things we have to work for. I think that’s true for love as well.
Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.
All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.
Jade Dragon will go.
I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as “the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you’d look forward to the trip.
I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It’s too late, it’s too late. You can’t come back.
The past makes a good bishop but a poor king.” “What does that mean?” I said. “It means that it’s good to take counsel from the past but not to be ruled by it. Otherwise we end up using today to fight yesterday’s battles and miss tomorrow’s promise.
What the masses don’t realize is that they’re looking for a shepherd. Those who don’t think they can be influenced or call themselves ‘independent thinkers’ are usually the biggest conformists of all – and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.
The pages continue to turn, and every day I’m a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few – but not as many as you might think. If it hadn’t been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.
Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can’t change.
There are people whom we’ve never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi’s Diary.
I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key.
On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.