Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.

There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

But now that I’m scrubbingtoilets on my hands & knees, with four degrees, I realize that one escape routeleads to another

Good updates are nice, as a matter of netiquette. Bad ones are negative. NetworkEtiquette.net

You can't change the feeling but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

I think this whole Billy Bush thing just pushed women over the edge because it's so visceral.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!