A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone-but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let it, hold any of us back from doing exactly what each of us needs to do to feel fulfilled.
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.
To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.