Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic — but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin, on the…
Your thorns are the best part of you. Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. The cure for loneliness is solitude. Marianne was one of America’s foremost poets and often considered the poet’s poet’s poet’s poet. Her work is acutely observant and insightful. Read more about her here.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. How I Love Lucy was born? We…
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts. I’m very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it’s…
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Fame changes a lot…
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to…
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. No one ever worked for me. Nor did I ever work for anybody. We worked together. True, there are occasional accidents of career, but the greatest successes are not…
