Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
I am especially fond of you.
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.
Most birds were created to fly. Being grounded for them is a limitation within their ability to fly, not the other way around. You, on the other hand, were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around. Living unloved is like clipping a bird’s wings and removing its ability to fly. Not something I want for you. Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly. And if left unresolved for very long, you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place.
Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.
Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection. ” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it. ’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.