I can't help flying up on the wings of anticipation. It's as glorious as soaring through a sunset. . . almost pays for the thud.
Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
Think. . . of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.
The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.
Personally, I prepare exactly the same for every game: I don't think, "I'm going to have to do extra here because of what they think of us. " But if you're an England player you do tend to be told how much everyone hates you.
I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
The word "collective" is not so often used because it has been basically used by socialists and communists and has a different history. The word "cooperative" means the workplace itself is organized cooperatively, rather than in the conventional capitalistic, hierarchical form.
I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.