It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives.
I am doing the best I can given what I have today.
At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.
Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up
For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.
Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.
Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring.
I'm the only P. M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court. '
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
I have found that the characters in my novels stay with me after a book has ended. I know them in some sense. I never map anything out. I just think until I am secure in the voice of one of them, and then let the character unfold.
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment. . . When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.