You truly do reap what you sow, so that makes it so important for us to learn to love each other in the here and now.
The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.
Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.