I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.
Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?