Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.
Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.
The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
No tactic will work until you have the guts to DO the work!
The secret of passion is purpose.
Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.
Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.