Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others perhaps I need someone else to control me.
You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look intelligent anymore.
Kids forgive one another much easier than adults forgive one another because to kids, having fun is more important than having an ego.
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.
There is a deeper reason as to why some nice guys are frequently deemed the weaker, and that is because niceness is weaker than love.
Love tames the benumbed beast. A man is put to use regarding a woman's physical safety, but a woman is put to use regarding a man's mental safety.
Never marry when under the guise you need to see if it'll work, but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.
You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
May all your tears from grief water the flowers of hope, as though the more the tears, the more the flowers'll grow.
Every now and then, even the best driver around can still crash - granted, if the surrounding people are sound asleep at the dash.
To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!
I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.
I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.
Unfortunately, we've rewarded a sort of cowardice by calling it 'kindness', and this has made us utterly spineless when truth finally hits.
Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been
A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.
If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.
Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.
In some cases, trying is better than doing because it indicates that you are attempting things hard enough to fail.
There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30.
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.
The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
