You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, “I forgive. I’m finished with it.”
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.
What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.
We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it.
Surviving is important, but thriving is elegant.
