A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.
it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.
Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i. e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.
. . . writing is not a performance but a generosity.
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
Végre nem butulok tovább (I've finally stopped getting dumber).