It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always get things right. Even postponing or avoiding a decision can become a choice that carries heavy consequences. Mistakes can be painful-sometimes they cause irrevocable harm-but welcome to Earth. Poor choices are part of growing up, and part of life. You will make bad choices, and you will be affected by the poor choices of others. We must rise above such things.
Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.
Can't you home school me?" Nate pleaded. "You would never do any work. " (Nate's mom) "Sounds perfect!
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Every time you build a golf course, it’s not a golf course when you get there. You have to improvise.
Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand. " ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.