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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. —Jackie Robinson
“Television rots the mind and turns a brain to cheese until a person cannot think but only see.”
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu
Think on a problem long enough, and you might not find the answer, but at least you’ll know the question.
It’s the beautiful thing about gifts, the feelings they carry within them.
happiness shouldn’t need to be chased. It’s with you all the time, wherever you choose to look.
What will be will be, and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.
Life as a human can feel so heavy.
It’s a huge thing to be understood.
“You probably wish we never came here,” I say, my heart heavy with how much we unintentionally ruined things. Rock stops and, for a moment, says nothing. Then softly, his voice barely a rasp and his eyes still on the water, he says, “The opposite. It’s like I wished for something too hard, and this was what happened because of it.”
a small change is capable of causing very large consequences.
In the end, we are the sum of our deeds,
That’s what you do for your children: you protect them.
“You say something mean,” she said, “you need to say five things nice to make up for it. You do something wrong; you need to do five things right. It’s not an exact science, but in my experience, it’s close.”
Perhaps all of us are not who we seem, each of us altering the narrative to portray nobler versions that make us appear better than we are.
only when you lose the desire for the things that don’t matter do you start to have fun.
you deserve to be seen. We all do.
It’s quite something when you realize how much you’re loved.
“It’s the good deeds that make you who you are and paint the future in ways you never imagined.”
Time wasted . . . even a minute . . . is a great loss,
