Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. . . . Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit of the larger purpose, realizing the rule of law. . . . This is not to deny that the will to win drives those efforts. . . . Rather, it is simply to insist that ultimately, neither the accused nor society is served unless the integrity of the system is set above the expedient purposes of either side.
From that first little touch, the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division – my love was not split between them now; it wasn’t like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled. The increase was almost dizzying.
You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.