To be loved, feelings must be rationed. To love, the doors of hysteria, fantasy, and madness may be flung open.
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.
I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
I believe that life is about doing. It's about changing. It's about transitioning. I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.
I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U. S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.
I think cats would have an even worse attitude if they found out how stupid their names were.