Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?
I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.
We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.
I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
..As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice.
It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.
Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not to scratch it. He was afraid of what might come leaking out.
When someone wants to give you a “piece of their mind,” ask them to give you “peace from their heart” instead.
Love and truth are intimately connected. You cannot have pure love without pure truth and you cannot have pure truth without pure love.
An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.
He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.
When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
[Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.
Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn't. But is sure as hell wasn't heaven, either.
A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
