The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.
When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.
Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.
perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected. . . . when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers.
I have personally been affected by women's reproductive health issues, and I will continue to support that cause and spread awareness about it.
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.