The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.
I want an Oompa-Loompa!' screamed Veruca.
Even though life is difficult as times, you must understand that these challenges are not here to beat you, defeat you, or squash you like a bug. Life is not against you (even though it feels that way sometimes). Every single experience is in your li...
If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your mistakes deserve course correction and education, not punishment. He...
It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.
May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference
The heart is heaviest when it’s empty and lightest when it’s full
I think,” Jace said, “that you don’t want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...
Follow my finger." He moved it around, tracking my eye movements. "Any blurred vision?" "Well I think I'm hallucinating, because I see a big talking pile of crap." - Joanne Baldwin.
To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.
Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over. But it's hard to make things when you're afraid―or you're certain—that they'll just be broken.
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
And now Kit’s cock—which had mostly been used for taking a leak before that moment—woke up and screamed And Kit had given it a good handshake until it threw up.
Whose is it, do you think?” I say finally. “No telling,” says Finnick. “Why don’t we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?
They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.
So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.
Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.
Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.
Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.
