Join the dance.
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.
I don’t have any bad habbits. They might be bad habits for other people, but they’re all right for me.
A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces.
Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
With all the wealth of the world at hand, there are human beings who hunger, whole nations who suffer cold. The judgment for this condition, for misusing Nature’s gifts, is the judgment upon man’s failure, man’s unsteadiness. Leadership is the thing.
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Wealth is the product of a mans ability to think.
Life is a full-contact sport, and there’s a score up on the board.
Shoot for the moon. If you miss you’ll still end up in the stars.
You know, it sounds like Im bragging in some way, but as far as career stuff, theres not that much stuff that scares me. I know what I can do well.
I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!
