Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war...

Your heart is the correspondent of your soul. It knows the grooves of joy.

I suddenly felt like the Grinch feels when he discovers what Chrismas is all about. For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It...

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.

Diversity is wisdom.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we’ve arrived at.

What use is the internet if not for spreading pixels of happiness?

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father’s hand and your mother’s lap.

Look for the exceptions to the rule–and let these rule your spirit.

If the issues of life push at you push back with such force that they fall off the universe.

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new...

Who’s going to take care of it? You?. . . Son, you came in the house yesterday with sh*t on your hands. Humansh*t. I don’t know how that happened, but if someone has shit on...

That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That’s why the things...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

The greatest asset to the human experience is the ability to navigate one’s emotions. By practicing the skill of detachment, one can successfully step back from the potentially destructive and tune into the purely positive

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

Never give up. Never. Ever. Ever.

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures.

You can’t reach the destination which you don’t know. So what’s the use of hard work when you don’t know where it’s taking you?

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other’s hearts in prayer.

Finding the calmness or serenity in oneself effectively diffuses the judgments of others

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

Just start somewhere,” Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. “It doesn’t have to be at the beginning.” She’d pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting...

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.

Kurt pick his way around testing for heat before taking each step and avoiding places where the ash was heaps up.

Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war.

I want you to know that if I could’ve stayed with you I would have. I fought as hard as I could. I will never understand why I had to be taken from you so...

Girls find it rather fun to tease my about my height and the joy I find in the games boys play. Please. I could find a lot of things to say about their stupid makeup...

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

Night never judges, but morning never forgives…

As long as I didn’t say it aloud, it wasn’t real

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.

How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night.

Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards...

Every day is a new adventure so embrace it fully with with your whole heart and soul.

So many love affairs doesn’t survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing; it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just...

The creatures that inhabit this earth–be they human beings or animals–are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

Don’t be surprised when you see people you thought you knew act weirdly. People change. We change. Even the world change.

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty–these are Christian values.

Oh love! You are like a light bulb in my life.I am in deep darkness without you.

Don’t ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

A childhood filled with adventures, happiness and unabated love.If only I could remember …

If the gooseberry said: ‘I haven’t the heart to be a real proper gooseberry because if everyone were a gooseberry the world wouldn’t continue to exist’ this would be a stupid argument and the world...