My friends, don't idolize hardship. What you idolize is what your heart will look for and what your heart looks for is what you will have. And don't capitalize on misfortune, because you will always seek out to have capital! Throw away that pride! Do...
Such fatigues and hardship as these serve to wean me more from the earth; and, I trust, will make heaven the sweeter. Formerly, when I was thus exposed to cold, rain, etc., I was ready to please myself with the thoughts of enjoying a comfortable hous...
I sat at my desk, poured myself a glass of wine, and pondered life...my profession...was it meaningless? I took a long, drawn-back swig of the bourbon and slammed down the glass. I only then noticed the stream of filtered light illuminating through t...
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.
If I find out that you went within even fifty feet of her, ever again, your ass is mine. Do I make myself clear?
But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.
Jace shook his head. “I don’t care if I did just set myself on fire,” he said. “I’m not hugging you.
Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.
I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this makes it all worth it, this moment.
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.
I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.
Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself...
When I first met him, he was everything I wanted to be, but over time, he showed me how I wanted to be myself, and that was how I fell in love with him.
Killy arched an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't be thinkin' you can deceive this old man. I've been makin' a fool of myself over women since before you were born.
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.
The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.
I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I’m way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.
