Not racing is not an option. I didn’t work my whole life to say, ‘Maybe next time.

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

My life is my philosophy. I don’t want to explain my philosophy but my life will explain it the best.

want to live like there’s no tomorrow. Love like I’m on borrowed time. It’s good to be alive.” ~ Musician Jason Gray

The teaching goes on

The Epistle of our being is written with letters full of blood drained from the love of God’s Word.

That if a thing is defined in contrast that’s what life is, the shadow of death. So the mystery of death couldn’t be the bad thing, because without it there wouldn’t be life. The badness...

We all want to be the best at something. Trouble is, some people are only the best at being second best.

Fatherhood is sacred.

The reef acted as the foundation of Hawaiian life in ancient times, and continues to be an important part of our modern lifestyle. If the reef is to remain a viable ecosystem, it must be...

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.

From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.

When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that’s all the magic there is to it.

Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

…I wanted to remove,my diamond earrings,for I felt they were,weighing a little heavy.I wanted to remove my heels,for I felt they were,taking me a little,above the ground,than I needed to be.I wanted to,throw away my...

The Temperature is RisingThe heartbeat quickens my breath is controlled,my senses are illuminated like a mother to her young. This feeling I have I’ve know it before, when the gates are opened I’ll remember the...

Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined...

Unjustified ambition kills value,Kills someone else’s desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit.

I move closer to the glass, as close as I can get to it, begging her, begging Lily, begging Grace, begging all of them to tell me what’s left, to just tell me, while the...

And then there’s the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound...

It is this – that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That’s what I want to say. Don’t you forget that. Whatever happens, don’t you dare let yourself forget.

You don’t need to change everything in your life instantly. All you need is one positive thought.

My hands will get dirty holding your rose-like heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive.

Life is a happy journey.

In a world of increasing complexity, the simple man walks alone. Knowing his ways are not of the world. Refusing to complicate and confuse those things which he knows to be true. Love is that...

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.

At the end, life is a journey with an unknown destination, but we add value to life with love, imagination, and creation.

Your life can never be a complicated journey without you being the one complicating it.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Some people behave as though they are having an allergic reaction to feelings.

Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step to some chosen end across...

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn’t lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn’t lived yet.

Two steps upward after one step downward is still an achievement.

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

Life is a one-way journey without stopping or any U-turns.

Once upon a time humans faced each other and pulled thoughts from minds, advanced rapidly, revolutionised industry and evolved explosively. Then one day they stopped, and stared at a box. They grew fat and awkward...

What’s the Future? It’s a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren’t the lines we wanted.

Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

Don’t make people control your life, People only care about themselves. Live your life with happy and ignore Sick people.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you’re looking for is right in front of you.

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.

Only the stupid conquer in life; the other man foreseestoo many obstacles and becomes uncertain before he starts.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you’re really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to...

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility.