So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.
Forgiveness is the key to the heart’s shackles.
The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.
The assumption of time is one of humanity’s greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there’s always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.
Regret is the most tiresome of companions.
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we’re walking.
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
We can only lose what we have first claimed.
Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.
It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don’t even know your phone number.
Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.
There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.
Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.