You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.
Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.
The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
Never fall out of love with life
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.
You can only lose what you cling to.
When you hear that something can’t be done, ignore that advice and push forward.
The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
It's an unwritten rule - girl friends' boyfriends are off limits, even after they break up.
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.