When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.
You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.