. . . just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.
Be the fearless girl that everyone knows would dare to do anything.
There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you.
Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.
In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.
Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.
It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.
Don't focus so much on your relationships. Have fun with them. Or if you don't have them, you don't want them, have fun with that.
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.