We can lose the roll, we can lose position, but we can constantly strive to win the moment.

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

"{Gina} I got them Bad Old Cosmic C - Word Blues Again.{Mark} What does 'c - word' mean?{Gina} It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat...

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

Everyone falls sometimes, son, even me, but the trick is to get right back up. They'll always target the ones who appear vulnerable, so you need to be strong. Fake it until you make it.

Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small...

No god craves weaklings.

May my weakness not drive me to my knees in despair, but raise me up to You, Lord.

You're only as strong as your biggest weakness.

We went about our usual routines - combat practice, volleyball practice, archery practice, strawberry - picking practice {don't ask}, lava - wall - climbing practice ... You'll find we practice a lot...

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...

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my...

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

He says I am sorry I am not an easy person to want. I look at him surprised. Who said I wanted easy? I don't crave easy. I crave goddamn difficult.

i'm like a prickly pear... i'm a prickly pear!!!

It was a survival thing: he didn't answer back, didn't say anything about job security for prison guards, debate the nature of repentance, rehabilitation, or rates of recidivism. He didn't say...

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

You never think it's going to happen to you, do you?

And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on...

JFK had a way of grabbing grandeur from mishap.

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Strong-willed heart always makes me feel so touched. It reminds me about some 'fall and rise again' in my life.

In the moments between bullets, those in foxholes regain their vision. They get to count the dead, feel for holes. Pain creeps through a sluice of calm.

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I'd either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade...

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

My son will not allow any fires tonight," Gaea said from the depths of the warehouse. "He is the void that consumes all magic, the cold that consumes all fire, the silence that consumes all...

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.