Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.
The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that. . . women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.
The greatest possession we have costs nothing; it's known as love.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it is up to you. There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.
It's a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
In the end, The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on and gained by those who let go
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The mental pattern must always precede the material form.
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.