I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
Love has these three stages, and compassion accordingly has three stages, and both can exist in different combinations.
If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I.
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions. . . It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.
If a person's religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless
We're all going through so much hard, wonderful, amazing. . . it's blessings; it's lessons; it's hardship; it's life. I guess, I don't know what the definition of life is. I now know the meaning of my life, because of my daughters, but mine is one little tiny speck in the universe. It's nice to not be pretending everything is perfect all the time, because it isn't, but I do love happiness and joy and optimism.