I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.
I am convinced that the reason why my kids have become very fulfilled and achieving human beings is because I wasn't raising them alone.
Peace is the respect for the rights of the other person.
Dare to change the world. There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity. I can't think of a better life than one dedicated to passion, to dreams, to the stubbornness that defies chaos and disillusionment.
The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.
My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.
About 2500 years ago Aeschylus, the Greek playwright, wrote, He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. These remarkable photos and the stories that accompany them should be on billboards from sea to shining sea, so the pain and suffering they represent might fall drop by drop upon the American psyche and against our will, by the awful grace of God, wisdom might come to these United States and her foreign policy.
What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
. . . we chase after ghosts and spirits and are left holding only memories and dreams. It's not that we want what we can't have; it's that we've held all we could want and then had to watch it slip away.
Here's the thing: You rescue us every day in small, quiet ways, so why not in this way? Let us into your mystery, tell us how you would like to be loved, show us how to see you, really see you.
Flying first class means sitting next to a better class of person I don't want to talk to.