How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

There is no education like adversity.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Let go of yesterday.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast – which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others – then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Freedom is relative.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.