When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.