I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.
I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
The less attention I pay to what people want and the more attention I pay to just writing the book I want to write, the better I do.
It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.
I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.
It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.
They had all this talent, and they had no instruments. So they started rap music. They rhymed on their own. They made their own sounds and their own movements.