Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
We can reorient science - for example, a kind of medicine much more directed toward the enormous number of women's health problems which are neglected now. But the original givens of this science are the same for men and for women. Women simply have to steal the instrument; they don't have to break it, or try, a priori, to make of it something totally different. Steal it and use it for their own good.
Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.
You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.
Friendship demands attention.