Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.
I don't think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
I know it's a lot. But she can handle it. I'd rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Generally if you're a daughter in a Mexican family, no one wants to tell you anything; they tell you the healthy lies about your family.
