What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.
Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
When in doubt, do the obvious.
Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.
Once you become aware of what means the most to you, you're less likely to put off something that's really valuable for something that matters much less. . . it's knowing the difference between what's important and what isn't that allows us to solve problems effectively.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.
The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i. e. , he must be a dialectical materialist.
I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.