Failure is a detour

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of...

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance...

Live Long and Prosper

Don’t be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you’ll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen!

I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well.

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

CALVIN:As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

When you feel weak, energize yourself with the power of love, love everyone and everything, this world will be yours.

Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you.

Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

A man without god is a lost man. Every man believe in something. We CANT live by ourselves thinking only in money and possesions. We HAVE to live WITH others and love each other, and...

Don’t stop talking to me, Makenna. I need your words. Your voice.””I don’t know what to say is all. I want to take away your hurt.”His cheek lifted into a smile under her hand. “Thank...

Happiness is not a destination but the journey itself.

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like...

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If...

You are loved, and you are worthy! Remember your wholeness. Within you is the spark of the Divine. Let go of negative self-talk and let LOVE heal you.

Love could be passionate, compassionate, and kind. Love could be physical, spiritual, or eternal.

Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what’s comfortable and easy. I’ll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I...

Well, no one says you can be happy about everything,” I said. “I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you’re crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this...

There are three types of people. Ones who live according to the past, ones who live leaning onto the future, and ones who live on the moment.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but...

I am a great success, not because of what I have, but because, through service, I found enduring happiness.

Her son seemed to be belatedly rebelling against all his celebrated accomplishments- as well as the responsibilities inherent in them, the obligations to own his talents.In that rebellion, she saw a young man who was...

I wasn’t perfect, and I made mistakes; but I learned from them and became a better person for it. I always followed my heart. And most of all, I loved — with every ounce of...

I needed something–the distraction of another life–to alleviate fear.

My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I’ve let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.

The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but...

We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: ‘I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

It’s when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.

True wisdom is being able to say ‘it is what it is’ with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

But in the daytime it was all right. And when you’d had a drink you knew it was the best way to live in the world because anything might happen. I don’t know how people...

They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.

That helps me get through any tough time in my life. There’s so many ways you can run away from it, but when push comes to shove, the truth is going to look you right...

Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.

I so wish life also had the option of undo making it easier to deal with things you erred. I would have gone back in time to undo every mistake of mine, for which I...

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves.

If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me...

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

If you know what you want to do, you have the opportunity to become who you want.

The purpose of our life is to be useful. Happiness is a byproduct of such an act.

Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.

When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others… allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the...

Loss taught me about the frailty and transient nature of man. It taught me humility. It taught me about the urgency of service, of touching lives, of mentoring, of legacy. Of making hay while there...

On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to...

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not...