Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes…you’re Doing Something.
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
You can be the ripest, juciest peach, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.
It might take just as much effort to fit in as it does to stand out, because you’re standing up for yourself. It’s those who take a risk and take chances who achieve greatness. Those who play it safe never can.
Don’t save your good lingerie for dates, wear it for you.
I’ve always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
I’m more attracted to glamour than natural beauty. The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls. Then she had her hair bleached, fake eyelashes, and that’s when she became extraordinary. It’s that idea of what you’re not born with, you can create.
When someone calls another individual ugly, all I see is that the one doing the insulting becomes instantly less beautiful. Consider it a compliment to be mocked for being different.
I’m for anyone trying any kind of look. The only barrier is yourself. Do not worry about what other people think.
The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. “The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic advantage in tableaux. They do not move.
I say, enhance what others might deem less than wow and make that your beauty mark.
Everyone, no matter her or his stage in life, has the right to feel beautiful.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire, and to know what he ought to do.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
How can we live in harmony? First, we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.
I will do what I promised.” He whispered. “No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains away – through the power of words – to change the world.
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences…our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Every thought we think is creating our future.
If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.
I will not be distracted by noise, chatter, or setbacks. Patience, commitment, grace, and purpose will guide me.
The mental thought patterns that cause the most disease in the body are criticism, anger, resentment and guilt.
It’s okay to learn from every experience, and it’s okay to make mistakes.
How you start your day is how you live your day, and how you live your day is the way you live your life.
I am one with the power and wisdom of the Universe. I have all that I need.
Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future.
I only speak positively about those in my world. Negativity has no part in my life.
