I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their...
I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent distant and full of sorrow as though you had died One word then, one smile is enough And I'm happy; happy that it's not true
People change,' Sara said. 'True enough,' Tsukuru said. 'People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us knew anything substantial about the other.
To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, an...
Stop making some excuses on why you can't pursue your true passion in life. You could start building your passion on the side until it grows big enough to substitute your regular job, and then you could concentrate fulltime on your passion and drive ...
Propositions are to stories (and to reality) as powdered milk is to what comes from the udder. Propositions are dried-out stories with much of the vitality removed. They may say something technically true, just as powdered milk is still technically a...
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing r...
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
True friendship does not freeze in the winter.
There's no physician like a true friend.
True love never grows old.
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
Hold on to a true friend with both hands.
I like the idea that when I die, I will have a long sit-down chat with God and get answers to all my questions. For example, those apple cores that I threw out of car windows when I was a child—did any of them become trees? Few boys or men had ever...
I’m not trying to start an argument with you,” William assured him. “I suppose I don’t know what it’s like to be a true revolutionary, though I think I’ve held some…similar…ideals. At times. Thought I could change things, if I fought ...
We often create problems in our minds because of our collective human perspective of there not being 'enough' – enough love, enough money, enough resources, etc. "There is enough. We have enough. If you are on this earth, then each moment you have ...
I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate.
