A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.
All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.
We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.
Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.
we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.
For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most.
Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was. . . What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.
In materiality we find some advance faster, some grow stronger, some become weaklings. Until there is redemption through the acceptance of the law (or love of God, as manifested through the Channel or the Way), there can be little or no development in a material or spiritual plane. But all must pass under the rod, even as He-who entered into materiality.
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.