B. D. Schiers

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Treat everyone as if they were a guest in your own house, because in reality, they are a guest in your own world.

What will your children be teaching your grandchildren?

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Never trust anyone who wants what you’ve got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.

When you get to the top, don’t forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Now I’m a warrior.

Love is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within – in front of the sea.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

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.