You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
…mencintai itu, kadang mengumpulkan segala tabiat menyebalkan dari seseorang yang engkau cintai, memakinya, merasa tak sanggup lagi menjadi yang terbaik untuk dirinya, dan berpikir tak ada lagi jalan kembali, tapi tetap saja engkau tak sanggup benar-benar meninggalkannya.
I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve,
The Man who says he can, and the man who says he can not.. Are both correct
How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray
Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don’t make it wait any longer.
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to your. And stay.
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.
Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
You need just the right amount of ‘Fuck the world’ and the right amount of belief in something…and you need the right amount of love.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.
We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
To love is easy, to be in a relationship is extremely difficult.
It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It’s bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
Teach her that the idea of ‘gender roles’ is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl.
‘Because you are a girl’ is never reason for anything.
Ever.
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of.
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.
Give me the Love that leads the way
The Faith that nothing can dismay
The Hope no disappointments tire
The Passion that’ll burn like fire
Let me not sink to be a clod
Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth’s shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man’s weak praise should be given God’s attention.
When you say “I” and “my” too much, you lose the capacity to understand the “we” and “our”.
Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don’t try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overhelmed with what comes back
Try to remember it always,” he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. “Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.