When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I grew up in a funny way.

Man is a universe within himself.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

Nothing can come of nothing.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.