The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Emotion is energy in motion.
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.
When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow.
Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.
I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.