The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.
Happiness is free, there are no conditions.
Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.
Always blame conditions, not men
Unfortunately, we are still in an age where individuals may be discriminated against because of health conditions.
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.
People always had conditions. God's love was and is so unconditional.
I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.
Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success.
Total surveillance is increasingly the general condition of society as a whole.
A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.
Unconditional love is being connected to Source in spite on the conditions.
There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.
I love existing in pre big bang conditions.
There are terrible living conditions and unhappiness, (even) where everybody is Italian.
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.
Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.