The first conversation began awkwardly, although Espinoza had been expecting Pelletier's call, as if both men found it difficult to say what sooner or later the would have to say. The first twenty minutes were tragic in tone, with the word fate used ...
He knew this could turn out to be a very dangerous ploy if it backfired, but he also knew he had his best friend firmly on his side. If nothing else, he knew he could let her take all the blame and she’d do it. He’d owe her majorly — what else ...
Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do y...
Then, instead of telling her that where there was life there was hope, or to let a smile be her umbrella, or that it was always darkest just before the dawn, or anything else that had just lately fallen out of the dog's ass, she simply held her. Beca...
I can answer that only by hearsay," returned the Guide, "for pain is a secret which he has shared with your race and not with mine; and you would find it as hard to explain suffering to me as I would find it to reveal to you the secrets of the Mounta...
If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person w...
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m mo...
Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his moustache he was nervous, compulsi...
To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all...
We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha's feet.
To be a fool at the right time is an art.
You have to give time some time.
Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
My first clue time travel could be possible was in the barber's chair the day before my girlfriend's funeral.
Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Every relationship will suffer to some degree without finding self-acceptance and treating yourself like your own best friend.
I may be sick. I may come from a hole in the ground. My best friend may be an insect. But at least I don’t live in decent society.
You don't have to be a doctor to know when a relationship is not healthy.
You and I are stymied in our own creativity. We can only create as sub-creators, and even then our best work is only sub-creation.
