When we get in a routine we can become zombie-like and shut down.
No one ever fell in love gracefully.
Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.
And enigmatic smile is worth ten pages of dialog.
Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. " (Harry Braxton)
She'd stood by that creed. No softness, because the world wasn't soft; lots of laughter, because if you were in on the joke, the joke couldn't be on you; And no wanting what you couldn't take, because the world never gave. Or so she'd thought.
She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal. . . They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.