there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.
If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.
We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.
Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding.
Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin. " And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden. " I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences. . . Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives. That sum total of private behavior has worldwide public consequences of enormous magnitude. There are no completely private choices.