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For hate is a boomerang that once it’s cast out has a nasty way of coming back to the one who threw it, and more oft than not, it cripples the hand that first unleashed it.”
Enjoy every breath you have, whether a handful or billions. You fight for every one. And when others seek to knock you down, you rise up and know that only you can defeat you. Never give anyone power over you, not for any reason.”
Urian. Perspective. In all things. For you cannot change what people say about you. Only how
you feel and react to their endless gossip. Whether to be offended and hurt or to embrace it and rise. Sage is the one who chooses the latter.”
Life isn’t for the meek. It’s for those too stubborn to give in.”
“It is ever the saddest indictment against humanity that they cannot live in peace. Too many believe the path to happiness can only be achieved by walking over those around them. When the truth is so much simpler.” “If you can’t be happy alone, you’ll never be happy in a crowd.”
Never harm a heart that loves you, for there are too many in this world that are out to cause you pain.
“What you call an overuse of profanity, I call sentence enhancers.”
It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
“Never look back. You can’t change what you’ve done. You can only change what you’re going to do. Pain is always all around us. It’s easy to become blind to it. But imagine all the times in your life when you were hurting and going through shit, if just one person had looked over at you and instead of kicking you while you were down, had said, ‘It’s okay. You’re not a bad person. It’s just a bad turn of the cards. You’ll get through it.’ Can you imagine what an incredible world this would be?”
To the child who’d wanted nothing more than to feel that unique love that only came from a mother’s heart. The kind of love that never asked for anything in return. It didn’t judge. Or hate or hurt. It just gave.
That was the biggest tragedy of their kind. Or perhaps that was the biggest indictment against humanity. When kindness and decency became so rare that people no longer knew how to respond to it, or when having witnessed a kind act they felt the need to comment on something that really should be so commonplace that it never should be newsworthy. If anything should ever be so common as to be taken for granted, surely in the name of the gods, it should be kindness and not cruelty.
