The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
May you live every day of your life.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.