Might - Quotes
According to Jung, a stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. [...] How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you`ll always be alone.
A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.
Sometimes I felt that there were too many painful things in this world, and if I thought about them all, my heart might break in two.
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
I was having a bad day, and my friend said, "Go wash your hair." I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
When you get old, peace is about all you want. You folks might not believe that now, but you`ll find out.
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. [...] We`re all vulnerable.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don`t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.