Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected. . . . when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
Fiction creating reality.
Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.
Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.