Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Your life is a treasure and you are so much more than you know.
Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won’t even reach for a pencil.
Responsible is Able to respond, Able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.
If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.
Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.
Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.
Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you.
We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we’ve made choices by default, when we haven’t designed our lives on our own.
Perspective: use it or lose it.
You’re never given a dream without the power to make it true.
You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you.
Live enough of what you’ve always dreamed of doing, and there’s no room left for feeling bad.
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.
We’re all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.
We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought.
Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.
Before you’ll change, something important must be at risk.
What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.