The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.
Next time I will. . . " "From now on I will. . . " - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected. . . . when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U. S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.
There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.