I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
“I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you’re yet to be.”
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.”
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
”When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
“The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
A eulogy Hemingway wrote for a friend:
Best of all he loved the fall
the leaves yellow on cottonwoods
leaves floating on trout streams
and above the hills
the high blue windless skies….
Now he will be a part of them forever.