Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them
Single is no longer a lack of options – but a choice. A choice to refuse to let your life be defined by your relationship status but to live every day Happily and let your Ever After work itself...
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.
I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you...
You cannot understand England just by seeing its candidate. He told me. Unless you leave at least once, you also cannot understand the country we live in.
Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.
Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.
{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...
He had what we often lack - the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the...
You explore the possibilities because you can't steer a parked car.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.
Starting today, learn more, laugh more and do what you truly love to do.
She really did trust Eliza. People made mistakes. She understood that now. And as Happy as she was to be with Ryan again, her friendship with Eliza was just as important. You only met a few kindred...
Here and now, with winter soon upon us, that is a different matter. It is time to begin growing up.
It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had...
"Listen to me, Bill," Richard said. "Let the librarian be your new best friend. If you like what she's given you to read, trust her. The library, the theater, a passion for novels and plays - well,...
The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment,...
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...
Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over.
The overplanners just take longer to be wrong and, when things inevitably go awry, are more crushed by the feeling that they have failed.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body, Margaret Fuller
Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a...
It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own. He was going to new...
This bittersweet phenomenon of a successful event paired with no discernible political gain seemed to be a chronic problem for our group. However, we were experiencing a victory that could not be...
even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.
Handel, the one who taught Davy, when a bigger kid was picking on him at school, that revenge made a man weak, while forgiveness took a man's power back from the bully.
You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.
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...
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...
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....