Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.
Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)
Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.
We let ourselves loose on that simple blank piece of paper, and our bodies spill. The terror, the loveembodying our stories page after page. In a sense, the pen was our tongue, it is how we delineate the world.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.
And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either.We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly:
Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time.
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certaintiesTime unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.
Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.
Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.
When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.
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