It is only when you're lying to yourself or hating some aspect of yourself that you'll get an emotional charge from someone else's behavior.
Never invest in a going concern until you know which way it is going.
Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.
The pause is a part of the walk.
The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.
The further you are from a problem, the smaller it gets.
When a man says his word is as his bond - get his bond.
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count.
No matter how many times you forget it, you can turn around and help someone. Or you can deliver a positive message or share with someone or just listen to someone share their story with you, it's just the best gift there is. And it's free.
But Jude,' she would say, 'you knew me. All those days and years, Jude, you knew me. My ways and my hands and how my stomach folded and how we tried to get Mickey to nurse and how about that time when the landlord said. . . but you said. . . and I cried, Jude. You knew me and had listened to the things I said in the night, and heard me in the bathroom and laughed at my raggedy girdle and I laughed too because I knew you too, Jude. So how could you leave me when you knew me?
A problem shared is a problem doubled.