I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.
The quickest way to be happy is to choose what you already have.
The fastest way to destroy love is to make a goal out of it, because people who are trying to be loved come from a place that they're not loved.
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person's life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs. . . Individuals transform when there's a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.
I'm just a young person trying to fulfil his potential and be the best he can be at what he wants to do. . . I guess that's why people connect with the music.
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme.
Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.
sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.