To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.
I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.
The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.
Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it?
I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.
The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)
What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.
I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.
Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
But for a man, it's different. Like, separation can take years - it can take years to make divorce final. What am I supposed to do during those years? I think that's, you know it's not the *craziest* thing, but it's where a lot of rumors come from. It's frustrating.
Another thing that you really do when you play, that you're supposed to do, is colors. You know, you cannot play with one color. If you play with one color, again, it's like watching a beautiful painting, a drawing, but it's all in blue or it's all in red. May be very nice, but not very interesting.
Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.
