There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone
A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
Part of what attracted me to the village was it had a lot of parallels to contemporary issues. Like, fear and the way fear controls us. How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear. They might mean well by it, but we are conditioned to be afraid of things. Fear of the unknown. Fear of terrorism. And it's unfortunate.
My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.
My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.