Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.
Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.
Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret...It is a word...the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE.
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
the divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals.
Friendship is an illusion.. Like love and compassion!
Every palace and every work of art is only dust as yet unrealized, and time is the patient wind that will whither it all away.
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.
All our yesterdays neatly shelved, time cataloged in drawers: News grows brittle and yellow under the library, in catacombs of paper.
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Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
