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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
The menu is not the meal.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.
If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.
The South has a future which it can shape for itself, and avoid the mistakes which the more populous parts of the country have made.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
I don’t like to read books. They muss up my mind.
We teach people how to treat us.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
