Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
No one's fingerprints are exactly the same as anyone else's.
The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.
I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.
We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.
Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
Once a human being has arrived on this earth, communication is the largest single factor determining what kinds of relationships he makes with others and what happens to him in the world about him.
She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.
Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household life, we must adorn every day with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
I always write to the moment. I've always been that kind of emcee. I don't wanna come in with all the paperwork and all o' that or whatever. That's good when you just an emcee from off the block that really don't have to work as hard as the next man. But when, you know. . . Y'all make me write like this, from, I guess, me makin' a classic and everybody callin' my stuff classic material - that makes me have to work ten times harder. But a lot o' times things just happen at the moment for me: spur o' the moment. That's just how it goes sometimes.
Some things come with their own punishments.