What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...
Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
I wish I had more patience.
Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.
A wise and an understanding heart.
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can...
Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart - felt desires.
There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. {p.225}
It had been a big mistake, introducing her to Tavi on one of his visits home. She had fallen hard and made up every conceivable excuse to turn up at our place that week. Tavi had taken it in his usual...
Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is...
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either
Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.
Silence is not a language, it's a weapon to make your dear one to feel
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Anne thought carefully about the question with perfect resolution, and expressed as much in her reply as her own feelings could justify, or as his appeared able to endure, for he was too deeply...
In every one of your relationships, you are on a continuum between intimacy and separation. You stand on a slide that tilts you toward either intimacy or separateness. Exactly where you stand at any...
Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.
Fear is an emotion you control, not the other way around. We control fear when we let it go.
If you don't know how to deal with emotion, other people's feelings can hit you like a drug.
We must recognize that our frustrations are largely due to the fact that we have not learned how to "dance" to a large part of the emotional spectrum. Being emotionally versatile is like being a good...
Anger is a way for energy to come out as something you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage. When I watch Andy work the heavy bag,...
Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.
As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black - and - white, less critical, less apt to blame and less...
Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.
Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving
Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
The heart is the key conduit to everything.
Everything you hate holds you back from growing. Everything you love helps you to grow.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...