It Will Be Beautiful. Quotes
Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.
Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice
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.
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.
Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.
We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.
Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.
We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.
The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
You're incredibly, absolutely, extremely, supremely, unbelievably different.
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.
I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.
Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.
When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.
When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.
We are not here to do what has already been done.
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.
Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.
Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
