Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
It is not that we don't know the right answers, it is just that we don't ask the right questions.
If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.
Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.
Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.
I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.
There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami. ] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill.
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings. They were not buddhas in the beginning. The path to buddhahood is traversed only through gradually developing more and more courage and DETERMINATION -then it is attained.
I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.