why”—so as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I’m whining. But I am whining, about why….

In order to understand the impact you can have on another’s life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.

Don’t give a gift with expectation to get but if you have got a gift always try to give.

Don’t live a lie because everyone around you already knows it’s not the truth.

You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they...

I learned regret in the ruins of Tarbfhlaith. I regretted that ambition had ruled my heart instead of affection for my kin. And with the lesson of regret came the gratitude for having life still...

A baby is a symbol of hope for the future.

All right,” said Susan. “I’m not stupid. You’re saying humans need… fantasies to make life bearable.”REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE...

Smile as if you are an angel from heaven.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his...

Hopes are plants, which need care, love, and irrigation.

May our eyes focus rightly on Christ … before the need to please others, before church, and before the busyness of Christian life. Those things will surely have their place, but they will be most...

All you need is love and joy.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Happy thoughts bring happiness, love, and success.

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I...

My Heart May Change Over Time (Boyhood->Manhood->Old) But The Love It Carries, Will Remain The Same….

Kindness is not an option, it is an absolute necessity of life.

A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations.

…if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.

Some people radiate happiness and make every one happy around them.

No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you.

Let us decorate the world with the flowers of peace, love, and laughter.

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that...

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their...

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.

A winner keeps playing until the winning shot.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth.

I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off...

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves...

Love is life!

The difference between success and failure is persistence.

First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an...

Synchronicity is the soul’s reminder of authorship.

For an immortal life, don’t look for power, but be the source of power and inspiration for others.

After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasn’t everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached to...

I learned a little of beauty– enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth…

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy...

The truth doesn’t always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies

A relationship that violates values is simply headed for crisis.

If you want to get more, appreciate and express heartfelt gratitude for what you have.

[There’s a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It’s silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama,...

In the beginning – in the early days – they said, “We are making the world better. When we came to this place there was nothing except forest and wild animals and people who ran...

It has struck me that people seldom listen to the meaning of underlying words.There are only a few people who recognize the silence beyond the scream,the gentle weeping that hides beyond tough statements.They hear only...

The act of going within, finding our truth, and then sharing it, it helps us far more than we know.

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the...

You have to let go to better embrace the best.