Some people will never ‘get you’. Do not spend eternity asking why. People will see you differently, just cherish those who lift your soul.
What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.
After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered ...
Sometimes being happy will require some difficult conversations. Some of those conversations will be with yourself.
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
His knowledge was not far behind The knight's, but of another kind, And he another way came by't ; Some call it Gifts, and some New Light. A lib'ral art, that costs no pains Of study, industry, or brains.
Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.
Some people do polarizing the religion against science. I use both to solve a problem with two different kind of approach.
It's sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. Even more funny, they succeeded.
A man must earn his daily bread by some means some-where, and if his bread fails to nourish his soul, at least his body will be nourished while his soul suffers.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?
You know how it is - some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all.
In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection...
There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made se...
Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.
