The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy natural and enjoyable.
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love make haste to be kind.
I'm not one of those complicated mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day taking what comes.
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Life is truly known only to those who suffer lose endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach who walk their talk.
In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life and you'll find that you have more of it.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy selfish and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
I love those who yearn for the impossible.
Even those who like me believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that for many on the right the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings... did real damage to the Court's reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.
In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
Each day each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
While there continues to be differences the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.
We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
Meth is too easy to make and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
It is imperative that when thousands of selfless volunteers respond to those who have incurred the wrath of a natural disaster that legal liability need not be hanging over their heads.
While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.
Insofar as international law is observed it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years which rejected it.