It takes an earthquake to alter the course of a river. What does it take to change the course of life?

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn’t matter if you’re a conservative stay at home mom, work at home...

It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

I want to do something for a living that when it comes time to retire and I can stop doing it, I’ll want to continue doing it in my free time.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Sitting here, beneath this majestic oak tree under the hot afternoon sun in the middle of nowhere, the concept of time, present, and future, were all blurred. What was time if you didn’t know whether...

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I suppose that means you don’t want any band-aids, either,” I said, a touch more bitterly than I’d meant to.

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again....

How many times have you tried to talk to someone about something that matters to you, tried to get them to see it the way you do? And how many of those times have ended...

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.

Life is full of highs and lows. We need them both to grow to our fullest potential. Just hang on tight & enjoy the ride.

Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each...

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: “Don’t feel guilty.” No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she’ll throw away a piece you may need.

I had a real life completely separate from beliefs, from the common reality made up of shared beliefs…

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

Bad news doesn’t hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It’s like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and...

Our life is a journey toward happiness.

I have a fantastic mirror, who ever looks into it feels lot more younger while every other lot more older.

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don’t even know where I belong.

My son, you are just an infant now, but on that day when the world disrobes of its alluring cloak, it is then that I pray this letter is in your hands.Listen closely, my dear...

At first, I didn’t understand. Understanding came very slowly.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he...

I sometimes see a shortcoming in myself, how little patience or understanding I have for many people in the way they act. I am able to see the fragility in some, but I only have...

As far as he could discover, there were no signs of spring. The decay that covered the surface of the mottled ground was not the kind in which life generates. Last year, he remembered, May...

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Enduring happiness only comes when you share your happiness with others.

… the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one’s humanity.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins...

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.

Our light will be their death.

Nonjudgmental love never hurt you.Judgmental love always does.

I love judging people. It makes all my fears disappear and all the things I don’t like about myself seem so much less important.

Nothing is impossible, nothing is risky, when you take the action with love, something better will happen.

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

The essence of life is not in the great victories and grand failures, but in the simple joys.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

No one can ever win by defeating someone; you only win by letting someone win.

It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions...

I promise you that this isn’t going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you—a normal life.”Her eyes glistened. “I don’t expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you

The faster way to capture the dream is getting started what you believe

Only a few moments in life have paved the road we’re on. What we choose to do between those moments will ultimately shape our destiny.

I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I’ve developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing...