I think everybody wants to be a rock star.
You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.
I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.
Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.
What does not change is the will to change
Knowledge is the harvest of attention
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
A single good government becomes. . . a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done.
when these incorrigible talkers are compelled to be quiet, is it not evident that they are not silent because they are listening to what is said, but because they are thinking of what they themselves shall say when they can seize the first lucky interval, for which they are so narrowly watching?