We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself. (Tender is the Night)
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.
...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.
He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.
your first thought would send the power of Quantum physics into a hive of activity. your first thought, would inevitably become the destiny of the day
How can you be one of the stars of heaven, when the stars are innumerable? What star number do you have?
Life is easy. We make it hard.
Don’t become bigoted about bigots.
Putuskan apa yang kau inginkan, dan berusahalah untuk menjadikannya kenyataan. Jangan sampai kau lupa hidup karena terlalu sibuk bermimpi
I'll not go where there is any of that sort of thing going on, again. It's the sure way, and the only sure way;
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?
Es decir..., lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (...) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por eso nosotros, para evolucionar necesitamos la muerte.
Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.
There is no dishonor in wisdom.
One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
