The rest of us need you to act, because if you don't, you're robbing yourself, your peers, your family, your organization, and the world of a contribution that only you can make.
A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...
If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck
Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to get what you need.
I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.
Never miss a chance...to keep your mouth shut.
When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy from a man who's selling fear.
When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready to believe in life after death. And it’s not the least bit interested in whether there’s any sober evidence for i...
I've put one foot before another and the years have passed, the time marked by late rent payments and the appearance of wrinkles - tiny ones, on the corners of my eyes. They are a reminder of my youth, and of the hourglass that we all live in, grains...
I am lost in my world, invisible - unknown. Moon please lend me your light that someone will me see me.
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-b...
Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.
...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
Our country is a place where hope can be born and great companies, organizations and non-profits can spring up from an idea birthed on the back of a coffee-shop napkin.
Maybe one reason I had avoided anger was that like a lot of people I had thought there were only two responses to anger: to deny it or to strike out thoughtlessly. But other responses are possible.
I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them.
A desperate plea to the Trinity is not something you can just apologize for in the morning -Drunk Dialing the Divine
I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.
Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am weird like that. Always were. The dead – that’s a whole other worl...
Sometimes it's torturous to think of things we can't possibly have.
We need to be fit and ready for anything that might come our way.
