If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
Everybody's damaged by something.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself.
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself.
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.
I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
