The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know.
You’re life is a print-out of your thoughts.
The art of letting go is simply about personal empowerment. Realizing what you’re in charge of, realizing what you control, and more importantly, what you don’t control.
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
"If you don't have the courage to walk alone others will not have the courage to walk with you."
Pearls and dung are both part of the punchline.
You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.
With understanding, there is not even the need to forgive.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.
The conflict of master and slave vanished and became, instead, a harmony of interaction and mutual dependency…For the masters were servants, and the servants masters of their own chosen realms.
He was acting on a reason other than the avoidance of pain. The sentiment was loyalty, and it felt glorious.
What is this &@#& emptiness?
What’s the human race going to do when it runs out of orifices to stick something into for a thrill?
You see how it is now? This world in which poetry must live? Where a gentle kiss might be considered strange and the bomb is everyday.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Today’s a new day. It’s your day. You shape it. Don’t let it be shaped by someone else’s ignorance or fear.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it fearlessly.
The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.