Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the
hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
As the smoke clears,
I awaken,
And untangle you from me.
Would it make you feel better
To watch me, while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken,
But I’m standing on my feet.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools!
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
I close my eyes
and I can see a better day.
I close my eyes
and pray
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity…Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Believe me, It would be better if we didn’t meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you’re still a child.
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life… it’s a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.
… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.
Don’t wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you’re best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Successful people don’t have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.
All paths are present, always… and we can but choose among them.
Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
If you do not find yourself a galaxy, it is not so bad to find yourself a star.
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together… then you’ll hear the sound of your soul
There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.
We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you’re going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
If you want to catch beasts you don’t see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing…when we save our children, we save ourselves
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
Love doesn’t have to be on Valentine’s Day. It doesn’t have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn’t have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn’t have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third day.
It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirt.
It just has to be.
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to gossip about others. Use your power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca; sebuah kebahagiaan.
I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.
I ended my first book with the words ‘no answer.’ I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.
A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.