I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your ol
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say, 'This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better.'
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
When we pursue the impossible, we achieve the unbelievable. But, we're often so distracted by how impossible our goal might appear, that we lose sight of .
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
Burning brains and broken souls are only healed first by kneeling down on the floor to speak to your creator and in that moment everything is okay!
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.
We all have a voice inside our heads that criticizes us, doubts us, tells us we're not good enough. It's how we deal with that voice that determines our destinies.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
As the moonlight spilled across my bed, I thought of home — far beyond the mountains, where the plum blossoms bloom in silence.
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
You have to laugh at yourself. You have to be able to take criticism. You have to have a sense of humor and a sense of perspective.
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
Happiness does not mean that our problems magically disappear – it means that we are more able to deal with them.
I was never convinced that home is a place. It's a feeling. I say this because I've had many places to call my own, but none of them felt .
