Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage
If you can't help people, then what is the point of being successful?
It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
Please find out what you can do to make a difference. Take five minutes to educate yourself on an issue you didn't know about before. Then tell somebody else.
Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [. . . ] I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to think of my joy at being liberated completely from the suffering of living and this hateful life itself, I believe that your sorrow will gradually dissolve.
In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.