If you want to change your life – Smile. If you want to change someone else life – Smile. If you want to be connected – Laugh.
Perhaps he was merely being friendly. Perhaps he saw the look on my face and mistook it for something else. Really what I wanted was the cigarette.
Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
I’ll start a threesome factory that also makes sex trees. How else am I supposed to grow coffee?
You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.
Amy sat back and grinned. "You just smiled." That was definitely something else she could get used to. Of course, he frowned immediately. "I smile.
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.
I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever.
Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.
If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.
Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?
Have and show motivation to do and learn. That's the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.
The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.
Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.
As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.
I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.
I don't want you to feel sorry for me. I want you to forgive yourself for being human, just like you would forgive anyone else.
