When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors—in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
It's good to be curious about many things.
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.
We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that's what's important.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,' I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
There's a part of all of us that longs to know that even what's weakest about us is still redeemable and can ultimately count for something good.
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
It's a mistake to think we have to be lovely to be loved by humans beings or by God.
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television, just like they choose what's in the refrigerator or on the stove. That's why we who make television for children must be especially careful.
We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.
There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help.
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
It isn't only famous movie stars who want to be alone. Whenever I hear someone speak of privacy, I find myself thinking once again how real and deep the need for such times is for all human beings . . . at all ages.
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.
When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done.
I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that's best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.
The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.
Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
Real strength has to do with helping others.
You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.
I have long believed that the way to know a spiritual sense is to know it in our real life. I think the best way to understand about God and peace is to know about peace in our everyday lives.
Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
The only thing evil can't stand is forgiveness.
Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives.
Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
All our lives, we rework the things from our childhood, like feeling good about ourselves, managing our angry feelings, being able to say good-bye to people we love.
How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?
Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
