Mikhail Bulgakov Quotes

Time will bring healing.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.

Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

I learned that one can always start again.

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

If something scares me, then I have to do it. My biggest fear in life is fear.