The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said
Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
We need to make peace with who we are so insecurities don't become a distraction to how we live. Just because I sometimes feel insecure doesn't mean I have to be insecure.
I have an amazing team, and we find people who resonate with us, but sometimes our scope is still small because we are a pretty small group and we have so much work to do. We get approached a lot.
and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
Sometimes it's better to let people handle their own problems. Sometimes just believing in someone is the best way to stand up for them.
People react not very wisely sometimes.
Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.
It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what you did with yourself. Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good bout yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could clip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct and had nothing at all to give." (Lena, 194)
What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it.
Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.
Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.
I like to be nice to people, but sometimes people aren't nice to me.
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
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