It Is In Things. Quotes

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.

There is nowhere morning does not go.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.

It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

By the end of the war, I could pick out Jewish people almost as if I had a sixth sense about it, even if they had blue eyes and blond hair. I would have been a very valuable Gestapo person.

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable.

Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Constraint inspires creativity

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.