There must be a few times in life when you stand at a precipice of a decision. When you know there will forever be a Before and an After... I knew there would be no turning back if I designated this...
I never went dancing again.
Life should always be concerned with balance.
There is nothing more fulfilling than being in your own company ~
Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one's character through the having and handling of every given day.
The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.
Seeing everything that goes on in your daily life, your daily activities - when you pick up a pen, when you talk, when you go out for a drive or when you are walking alone in the woods - can you with...
Home is where I am the least organized, I let go and become the truest version of myself; not because I don't care how I am perceived, rather, I know exactly how I am perceived and that gives me the...
Dreams shape the kind of human beings we become. Not having a dream gave me a smaller future and made me a smaller person.
During my time in the military it was always preached that complacency could kill you, literally. Complacency - a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements. In your...
Follow your inner dreams
Don't you find it odd, that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.
It's easy to count other people's mistakes. Make your own if you can.
I tell them that love is always there–that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find.
Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.
Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone...
Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.
Don't ever let your day end in "could haves" and "should haves." Life is meant to be one experience after another. Say yes to everything that is good for you.
Be strong, be strong.
Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn't mean they're lost forever.
When you're scared, you stay as you are!
I have not always chosen the safest path. I've made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I've learned something important along the way:...
Even if you are not aware of it, there are moments when you are receiving hints, a nudge, or support from the other side.
May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.
Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
I cannot live without reading.
The years teach much the days never know.
If you want to do something in your life, share everything but never your ideas.
Life consists of many different stories. A person has not just one but countless life stories that weave in between each other and together create exactly that specific life and that specific human...
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....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...