He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.
You’re worthy because the Great Spirit, or Universe, or God, or whatever you want to call a higher power, has put you on the earth at this time. There’s nothing else to think about! Since you’re as worthy as the next person, you’re as deserving to receive as anyone else. Anything else that your mind says around that is made up, non-supportive crappola!
The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.
If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life. ” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.
If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.
Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people
Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer and fresher paths. Art is just such a path. Art is distilled from suffering.
Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.