When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail. " You've "tried your best. "
Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing therell be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
Well, I would say that we've got to redefine democracy, that we have been stuck in concepts of representative democracy, that we believe that it's getting other people to do things for us that we progress.
The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen. . . there had been scandals where shares had been printed.
A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.