Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
I was a hundred-percent sick, I felt as if I had no further use for my legs, they just hung over the edge of my bed like unimportant and rather ridiculous objects.
I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me. . . and plenty of other people. . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength.
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
We have to trust the Lord God for so many things, and it is but one thing more to trust him in the issues of life and death, and to accept the fact that his plans and promises and purposes transcend the bounds of this world and of this life. With such faith the years are kind, and peace and reconciliation do come to those who have laid to rest their loved ones - who, even in death, are not far removed from us, and of whom our Father in heaven will be mindful until we meet again even as we are mindful of our own children.
He who offers God a second place offers Him no place.
The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago.
They loved so intensely that moments of their life have been etched into the very fabric of the mansion. Some say the king designed it that way, so if one day he lost her he could come live with her residue.