46 Quotes by Francisco X. Stork

Happiness had knocked on my door, and I opened it long enough to see that I didn’t want what was being offered.

But to like your life, you’re going to need more than medication.

The decision to act against evil is not measured by the impact it has on the evil but by the impact it has on the person who acts.

How do we live with all the suffering? We see our ugly parts, and then we are able to forgive, love kindness, walk humbly.

There are better sources of energy. Like love, or wanting to do something with your life. Anger makes you sick. It makes you go after hurtful things, as if hurting yourself is a way to get revenge on the person who hurt you.

It’s a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in.

My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can’t believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with him out of all the men in the known world.

Is there any way to avoid the emptiness of people’s absence?

Thoughts are clouds, Vicky. They are not you. The cloud of wanting to die appears, and if you don’t grab it, it will eventually float away. The cloud that says I’m lazy and a coward and a phony to boot floats before you, and you can calmly watch it come and go. You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and life.