The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.
I am convinced that being fully committed to the moment, without any worries about the past or projections into the future, is the best attribute a closer can have. You wonder why the shelf life of so many short relievers is, well, so short? Why guys...
On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one's happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar still is concerning oneself about ball games played decades before one's birth.
His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
What did beauty matter, anyway?
Maybe she’d always wished to be beautiful and didn’t quite dare to, because she could tell that people didn’t say she was and more attention was given to other women, but she still had a frail hope that there’d been a mistake and she was afte...
We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are. We want beauty that can be seen; beauty that can be felt; beauty that affects others; a beauty all our own to unveil.
The beauty of the day is the only thing that doesn't fade in time. Day after day, such beauty revives itself.
Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.
Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.
The secrets of evolution are death and time—the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.
And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood.
Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force. Its own flavor. Its own charm and strange.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of ...
