One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.
Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible. ' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.