The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.
Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?
If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?
It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.
To help someone in need is not charity it is proper etiquette.
Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.
I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.
Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.
There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.
What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.
Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.
If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog.
The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.
We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.
Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.
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