So Do You. Quotes

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true.

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

Every minute doing one thing is a minute not doing something else. Every choice is another choice not made another path grown over lost.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him?

Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.