You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.
I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted.
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.
What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.
Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.
As you reach for understanding, you find that your ladder of facts isn’t long enough, and you try to extend it by adding a rung of faith. Eventually you see that the task is hopeless, and you put away your ladder of facts and go get a ladder of faith.
Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed?
We all know the part of us that needs to be harnessed. It takes someone else to know the part of us that needs to be set free.
Better to start up a thousand wrong roads than to spend your life going nowhere because you know the way.
Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.
Try to discover, The road to success, And you'll seek, But never find, But blaze your own path, And the road to success, Will trail right behind.
An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.
Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.
I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.
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