Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.
It was best to believe in all possibilities. . . there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.
To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy.