But there is one cool thing about having a weirdo mother. She works so hard at remembering where she left herself she doesn’t have time to work on me.
Noble disappointment, noble self-denial are not to be admired, not even to be pardoned, if they bring bitterness. It is one thing to enter the kingdom of heaven maim; another to maim yourself and stay without.
Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.
Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.
Don't cry over the shots you've missed; weep over the ones you've not taken at all. The bitterest regrets are for things planned but left undone!
If you will reach your dream land as sooner as possible you have to leave everything behind and fix your eyes on one thing; the journey ahead!
We look for pretty girls we can say bad things to. No one shows up.
When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.
one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful
There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.
One of the most valuable things we can learn from open sexual lifestyles is that our programming is changeable.
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.
THE QUESTION IS, OF COURSE, IS IT GOING TO BE POSSIBLE TO AMALGAMATE EVERYTHING, AND MERELY DISCOVER THAT THIS WORLD REPRESENTS DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF ONE THING?
Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it’s one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.
There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.
When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.
One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams
