In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Katniss, the girl who was on fire!
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
You can make anything by writing.
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
Humor is reason gone mad.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
. . . when it comes down to it, that's what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can't show up anymore.
You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading.