Learn from your past and be better beacause of your past," she would say, "but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold on to it. Don't be bitter.

Acceptance is a great state to be in. It surely does not make a problem disappear. But the struggle stops. The 'Why?', 'Why Me?', questions die down. There is complete calm. When there is calm, there is focus, there is a sharpness. When you are focused, you invest yourself in solving the problem. You stop complaining about the problem. When you are non-complaining, you are at peace; you are happy with what is.

Monetizing your art, your spiritual talent, is not a sin. It requires a nuanced approach. You must have humility of expression ? recognize that you are just an instrument through which your art flows. And you must have a sharp understanding of commerce and your market/audience. Overthinking either of these aspects or confusion between these two aspects will leave you in a mess ? and very, very unhappy!

The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate.

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

I was ensorcelled from the moment you spoke with that sharp tongue of yours, my lioness, my princess of ice, my torture, and my salvation.

If your mind is sharp, your words will wound.

Someone once asked Somerset Maugham if he wrote on a schedule or only when struck by Inspirational. "I write only when Inspirational strikes," he replied. "Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

I write only when Inspirational strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

Trouble sharpens the vision.

May your sweetness outweigh your sharpness! May your understanding....outweigh your intellect!

That is the awful, beautiful, sacrificial power of love. We sharpen ourselves against those we love in order to cut ourselves open and see what's inside. Sometimes I wonder if wisdom is nothing more than shortening the time before you realize how ignorant you are about something.

"Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

The truth cuts like the sharpest knife I've ever known.

There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used to fall asleep while grabbing on to my pinter finger; how I sued to give her piggyback rides up and down the beach on Cape Cod, and she would tub on my ponytail to direct me one way or the other; how soft and furry her head was when she was first born; that the first time you kiss someone you'll be nervous, and it will be weird, and it won't be as good as you want it to be, and that's okay; how you should only fall in love with people who will fall in love back... I feel an ache in my throat, but i manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razor blade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

"...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what

I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.

Life Is A Sophisticated, Huge, Sharp And Powerful Saw. Use It Gently, Wisely And Cautiously.

Sharp-eyed gratitude never fails to see Grace revealed in multiple ways. And it never fails to inspire us to express appreciation for the pleasant things in our life, and to be thankful for the unpleasant things we are shielded from.

A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.