We are living in a new age of energy supply anxiety.
There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention. . . the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.
Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful. ' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.