Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another’s life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.
It’s almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.
There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.
Old friends are memories personified.
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.
Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don’t deserve it. That’s what makes it love.
Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst.
Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?
Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?
I love to sleep. It’s like being dead without the commitment.
If you remember the why, the how will work itself out.
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate,” she said. “I just love chocolate. It’s God’s apology for broccoli.
One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.
People talk of life’s storms as if they are universal experiences. But they’re not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.
There’s a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tell lies. You write lies that tell truths.
If love is our reason we may veer off course sometimes, but we’ll never be lost.
I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
My mom used to say that faith and fear can’t exist simultaneously in the mind any more than light and dark can exist simultaneously in the same room.