Byron Katie

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

You’re never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

There is no mistake in nature.

When you want nothing from anyone else, you’re safe for anyone to be with. Including yourself.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

The quickest way from A to B is not always at the most feverish pace.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.

The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.

The concept of shaking hands is absolutely terrible, and statistically I’ve been proven right.

The most you get is what you ask for.

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.

When you doubt the brilliance of your shine, I will take you through my darkness. I will show you where you shine the brightest.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Careful. We don’t want to learn from this.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.