“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.”
– Finn Butler
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
– Ethel Barrett
“The first to apologise is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.”
– Unknown
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
– Silvia Plath
“It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.”
– Jimmy Buffett
“Hire character. Train skill.”
– Unknown
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi
“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
– James Magary
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
– Ann Landers
“We’re all on the same side. Everyone.
We all have the same goal. We all just want happiness.
There isn’t any need to fuss about it.
Just recognize that my happiness depends on your happiness, vice-versa, and et cetera.
No one can really be happy with themselves unless they feel free to be themselves.”
– Unknown
“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
– Mario Cuomo
“People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: ‘Don’t decide what you don’t have to decide.’ That’s not evasion, it’s wisdom.”
– Mario Cuomo
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides