Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.
In many ways my writing is like therapy. It is my way of dealing with things.
I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.
I believe that most people aren't that different from one another. Although we might appear to be different on the surface, I think ultimately we all go through the same struggles.
What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.
I don't worry so much about whether people are buying my music or getting it for free.
The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie. " "Because life is an adventure, of course. " "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.
The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.