Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn’t be fair if you didn’t throw some punches back at it

A principle for writing, investing, and life in general: It is much easier to notice when something is working than to predict ahead of time if it will work. Take action, make many small bets,...

Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and...

He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.

I put a basketball hoop in the trees, to help the squirrels and give them a nice net to store their nuts for the winter. But that’s just the kind of thoughtful guy I am.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn’t been touched yet.

I write, write and write but I can’t find words that define what I feel inside.

First of all I like John Kerry. I think he’s intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he’s deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he’s an internationalist, which I am.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the...

I was just overwhelmed with not only his story but the way he told it. He’s such a thoughtful, intellectual, moving person. You could hear a pin drop in our interview room when he was...

…just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I...

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom.

Unhealthy gossiping is one way that divides heaven and hell.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

I’m going to do something bigger and better,bigger and betterand bolder, but first,I’m going to do somethingsmaller and worse.

I need a break after school,” she told me later. “School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play...

Are you handing me an empty wine glass? You’re so thoughtful. How’d you know I wasn’t in the mood to drink?

She got icing all over her face. I think that’s why I like her. For the good stuff, she’s willing to get icing all over her face. Who wouldn’t want a girl like that?

Being thoughtful about the comfort and needs of the people who work in your home is a characteristic of a great Home Care CEO.

Married women are far more depressed than married men — in unhappy marriages, three times more; and — interestingly — in happy marriages, five times more. In truth, it is men who are thriving in...

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who...

When we take life for granted, we’re assholes. Every day we wake up and the world’s still turning- that’s a great day.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don’t collect them.

What they’ve done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious … but they haven’t put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, … It’s so large that we can’t know if the problem...

I’d drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that’s just who I am. I’m a thoughtful guy.

That’s the funny thing about life. We’re rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not...

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.

We’re better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs...

People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap! I promise you! It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to...

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you...

A happy soul in a happy body.

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I’ve ever gotten.

The ChairI’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chairlook like a throne while you sat on it.Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor,which is dusty as a dry Kansas day.I...

When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but...