All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment.
You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being...
Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they’re true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it’s true or because it’s crazy?
One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.
There’s so much to learn! And just when we think, “I’ve got it. I really understand what’s going on,” we’re shown a whole new stage set on which to play.
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn’t have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.
Next to God, love is the word most mangled in every language. The highest form of regard between two people is friendship, and when love enters, friendship dies.
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.
Don’t fear change. It’s always for the best.
Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.
The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.
Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person.
Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.
There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.