Thing - Quotes
The best gifts of all find the fewest admirers, and that most men mistake the bad for the good, - a daily evil that nothing can prevent, like a plague which no remedy can cure. There is but one thing to be done, though how difficult! - the foolish must become wise, - and that they can never be. The value of life they never know; they see with the outer eye but never with the mind, and praise the trivial because the good is strange to them.
We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future. As if figuring it out will somehow cushion the blow.
But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes. But one thing is certain: When it finally reveals itself the future is never the way we imagined it.
Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The principal thing you can learn from a professor is how to be a professor - and the chief thing you can learn from, say, a life coach or inspirational speaker is how to become a life coach or inspirational speaker.
When your worst fears are fulfilled when everything you expect is gone, something is still driving us to fix the past or get into the future. When the only thing we should pay attention to is the present. And to the many possibilities of the present.
Your honor, the hardest thing to do is to be a hero when no one expects you to be.
Life doesn`t owe us a thing. It just is. Like a river, it goes where it goes. You can try to fight against the current.
Forgiveness is a powerful thing [...]. Not only to make the other person feel good, but to heal you.
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one`s own Trojan horse.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Sometimes our body`s signals get messed up and our failsafe goes haywire. Instead of making clots, our body destroys them. And the thing that`s supposed to help us only hurts us. It means we start to bleed and everything shuts down.
You think that true love is the only thing that can crush your heart the thing that will take your life and light it up or destroy it. Then you become a mother.