An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
Teach by example and treat yourself the way you would want your children to treat themselves.
Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime. . . but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.
Never play the Devil's Advocate. Your words could be the difference between success and failure in someone else.
If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're all alone in 5 yrs because you're annoying now. )
I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.
Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?
As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff.
What we've learned from the whole election cycle of 2016 President elections is men and women, men particularly, are pretty comfortable talking about women in terms that - I think it's hard for me to not believe this has been influenced by fifty years of open pornography and that kind of culture.
Moscow has been helping the Northern Alliance because "the Taliban was openly supported by Pakistan. . . until last week, Pakistani servicemen had taken part in war operations on the Taliban side.
The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.