The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
Don't give in! Make your own trail. Don't moan. Don't complain. Think positively.
The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.