You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.
You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.
If you don't think you're hurt, then you aren't
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
Interesting people always have a past.
Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you are young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul.
Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.
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