Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.
To stay in recovery, you must be responsible for finding your own motivation. Remember, motivation may not be easy to come by at first. It will probably be a very small, timid part inside of you. When you find it, let that part be in charge. Let the minority rule and lead you to a life you never dreamed was possible
I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.
. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private moment of transcendence, but rather as a new engagement with life. He is offering us a relationship to the world that is more sensitized to suffering and the causes of suffering, and he gives rise to the possibility of another kind of culture, another kind of civilization.
There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.
Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.
If you understand life. . . you MUST be misinformed!
I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get involved, you know, but he's my dad, I can't send him to his room or ground him or go to his first grade play and scream, Look at the fairy! I was a wood nymph.
An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you'll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.
Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.
A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. Emotionally, he honestly absorbs the vibrations emanating from the people, manners and life of his time and, in turn, gives these impressions back to the world -- simplified, clarified and glorified.
