What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. What you have to do, you do with play. I think a good way to conceive of sacred space is as a playground. If what you're doing seems like play, you are in it. But you can't play with my toys, you have to have your own. Your life should have yielded some. Older people play with life experiences and realizations or with thoughts they like to entertain. In my case, I have books I like to read that don't lead anywhere.
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.
My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment. To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense.
If you keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.
The trading rules I live by are: 1. Cut losses. 2. Ride winners. 3. Keep bets small. 4. Follow the rules without question. 5. Know when to break the rules.
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.
I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.
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