I was going to die, but I didn't have to grovel.
You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.
A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room".
You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.
Five, six weeks or two months into the diet and the absolute crazy training regimen is a brutal nightmare sometimes. But in the same breath, that's what is so wonderful about it because it's so structured and your body is changing and you're able to do things that you've never done before. You're stronger than you've ever been before.
My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.
TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.
When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.