At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.
-Cormac McCarthy
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
-Charles Edward Montague
Pay attention to your dreams - God's angels often speak directly to our hearts when we are asleep.
-Eileen Elias Freeman
Flood your mind with love. Look into the eyes of the other and embrace the person with whom you have quarrelled. Words are not necessary. Both will have their eyes flooded, and the joy of tears will wash away all quarrels.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.