We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep. '
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions. " Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway. "As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.