Encouragement is oxygen for the soul
Aside from the nagging, he's the most entertaining hallucination I've ever had.
All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.
You’re never ready for the truth. No matter how much you think you know, it always takes you by surprise.
Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do--because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth. . . well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock.
My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.
I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.
The high point of your life was when you knocked me down
The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.