You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. " - Pocahontas
If life is worth living then it's worth recording.
You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.
Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?
It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.
My life is a dream come true of a dream I never knew I even had
We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.