Quotes on Life

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

We are workers, not master builders, ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

It's important to have people in your life who will applaud your ambition.

... success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.