“WHO YOU CAN BE, WILL COME TO YOU THROUGH CONSISTENT PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.”
“The truth is what it is to who holds it.”
“Perhaps instead of scaring ourselves we need to surprise ourselves every day. We are, after all, always a work in progress.”
“You re much better off with a dog than a dogma.”
“For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?”
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.”
“Yes, I decided, a man can truly change. The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it s often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I ve often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
“I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear.”
“Your brand must communicate the value that you bring to a working relationship.”
“Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!”
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”
“There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practise. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing in your experience will change ~ from Ask And It Is Given ~”
“And it makes you think. Even things that have been the same for years and years can change. Maybe I can change. I can bring my own wall down, and let people in.”
“True love heals and affects spiritual growth. If we do not grow because of someone else’s love, it’s generally because it is a counterfeit form of love.”
“Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.”