Nobody cared about him. Nobody understood him. Nobody knew what it was like living with parents who wished he wasn’t alive.
Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.
What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will-.
Anger is a memory never forgotten. You only tame it.
Why live if you can’t help others and make the world a better place?
People change two ways – with slow persistent pressure, or with a single and sudden traumatic experience.
How much of the world did people miss because they were not calm enough, empty enough, to experience it?
Animals can teach us more about ourselves than any teacher.
Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
Our differences should be our strength, not why we fight.
You’ve changed, but you have to decide what you’re going to do around people who haven’t changed.
You have to want to be happy – some people don’t.
You do not have the right to destroy someone else’s dignity because you have none yourself!
Teachers have the right to teach and students have the right to learn. Nobody has the right to take away those rights. Nobody.
That’s how Cole felt – he didn’t owe anyone anything. Nobody had ever cared for him, so why should he care about anyone else?
Do you know what it’s like waking up every morning knowing you’re not good enough? There are only two things wrong with me – everything I do and everything I say. They’ll never be happy until I’m dead.
All my life I’ve been dumped on.
A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.
Diminish anything around you and you diminish yourself.
Every part of a Circle is both a beginning and an end, and in a Circle, everything is one.