A wise old owl once told me, One time when he was out of his tree, That nothing in this world is for free. I agree!
Because…sometimes I think you meet people and they make you better, even if you're not with them forever.
Not many people get every single thing they want plus all the things they didn't think to ask for in the same day.
You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.
There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.
There might be a million wrong people in your life, but when the right one comes everything looks dark.
Skate, if it were possible to choose who we fall in love with, no one would ever get it done, because we'd all be chasing after this ideal person who doesn't even exist.
We have all had stupid youths,' said Mathilde. 'I find them delicious.
"You are young," said my father. "You won't get any younger even if you clean your teeth twice a day." "You'll get older," said my mother, "that's what happens." "Then what happens?" "You won't be...
Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Why...
Humility carries less weight and it makes things float. Pride is weighty and it makes things sink! It takes humility then for a 'ship', regardless of how loaded it is, to float on the surface of the...
In a well-ordered universe... camping would take place indoors.
Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence.
They say Night is all black in the face All that glitters only adds to the grace No attempt to success ever succeeds Without one slogging through the blackened days
It's not what you know
At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and...
Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one's priorities
She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
You might pass by those who're stuck in the bottleneck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind!
If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.
There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, single, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's...
If a frog is placed into a pot of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out; but if it's placed into a pot of cool water that's gradually heated until boiling, it will stay put and never try...
Your present is what you live, but your past is what you carry.
Wallowing in the metaphorical mud of life helps pass time but doesn't really achieve much of any lasting value.
Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and...
As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes - as you did in this case. But things...
Sometimes, your future is already set, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are some things you just can't change, no matter how hard you work. Unfair, don't you think? It isn't an easy...
I'm not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past... and our future. It's a fact of life.
Some people are just like snakes, they will never understand your love.
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...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...