Sonia
You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.Collection: Love Is
Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283Collection: Mind
I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky down my face and arms, the sun in my eyes, breaking through clouds and glinting off the rain-soaked pavement and dripping leaves. I was running with joy, an overwhelming joy that arose simply from gratitude for the fact of being alive. Along with the image, memory carried these words from a child's mind through time: I am blessed. In this life I am truly blessed.Collection: Running
There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.Collection: Appreciation
Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.Collection: People
Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.Collection: Desire
My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.Collection: Mom
Make your own talent, make your own luck, and activate your stubborn streak, and there's nothing that can stop you.Collection: Luck
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested.Collection: Adversity