Life

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day.

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel.

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

She felt tears dripping down her cheeks, and she wondered if anyone would ever miss her if she simply sat here, drinking coffee for days and days, years and years.

Ever hurt so bad you want to scream ... Or scream so much it hurts.

Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.

Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist.

Days become weeks. Weeks become months. Month become years. And years become silence.

All souls have a body.

If you want to give a message to the world, let it be simple, as simple as the life of a shepherd!

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

Run your own race of life, with a single minded vision of purpos.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

Seeing young people caring about sound again and realizing that it's not cool to not have good sound, that means a lot.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.