You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.
Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter’s box like a soldier and it’s up to him-and him alone-what happens next. But here’s the thing I didn’t understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run… Someone else has to pitch the ball.
And I think of nothing. I think of nothing but Rachel. What happens next is pure magic, and is for us and us alone.
You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.
It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!
Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.