I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
You are not rich until you have a rich heart.
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.