The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.
To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again…
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have somone click the shutter.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, “I’m a free man in here” – he tapped his forehead – “and you’re all right.
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.
Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
I’d like to add some beauty to life,” said Anne dreamily. “I don’t exactly want to make people KNOW more… though I know that IS the noblest ambition… but I’d love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me… to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn’t been born.
If you’re serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.
To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don’t worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They’ll never get to be swans
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
There is no such thing as a great talent without great willpower.
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.