I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.
In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.
An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in.
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.
Life is not a destination; it's a journey. It's not a series of goals; it's a series of steps, of events unfolding as you make your way. Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.
Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.
When there is integrity, an entirety, a wholeness, in what you say and do, you are consciously resurrecting the incredibly powerful success mechanism you used instinctively from the time you first came to be.
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
We're eyeball to eyeball. . . and I think the other fellow just blinked.
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.
What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.