Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.
I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.
I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.
The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.
It is necessary to give freely if we are to receive freely. The law of receiving includes giving. The knowledge that substance is omnipresent and that people cannot, therefore, impoverish themselves by giving (but rather will increase their supply) will enable us to give freely and cheerfully.
The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.