If you believe in “luck”, always let it be good luck. Always choose to be "lucky", rather than "luckless". Be "happy", rather than "hapless".
There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.
God created many races wilier than men. But it doesn't mean angels higher than us.
Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.
Don’t take it so hard, Joel,” Johnson cut in. “After all, prayer is not the monopoly of one.” (Chapter 18)
They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.
Life’s a bitch and then you die and death’s a bitch too. Only my life was lovely and I miss it so much.
Fortunate are those who are trusted more by others than by themselves; Blessed are those who trust others more than they trust themselves.
...friends were more important than lovers - not least for the fact that friendships generally lasted longer than relationships.
The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
That's all science fiction was ever about. Hating the way things are, wanting to make things different.
When tragedy befalls me and someone says, "Better you than me," I always reply, "Yes, I am better than you.
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.
If, like me, you have many reasons to be less than secure and self-assured, and like me, you are far from stable even on your best days, don't for a moment imagine a psychotherapist will be of more help than a physiotherapist.
If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.
I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be...
