Love. . . is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe.
There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.
My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind. . .
In the end, it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars, but it will matter if you didn't live.