Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

The self is hateful.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Solitude is independence.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

The reward of suffering is experience.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I’m not the most patient of people.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.