The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.
An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!
Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE.
Dying is like diving into a deep lake on a hot day. There’s the shock of that sharp, cold change, the pain of it for a second, and then accepting is a swim in reality. But after so many times, even the shock wears off.
Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, “I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy.”
Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
One must first learn to fall if one would fly...
I’m a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten.
My way of writing a book is completely disorganized – to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.
The way to tell if your job is done: if you’re alive, you’ve got a job.
If you’re always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?
You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.
All of us are called by something in this world that attracts us. And it doesn’t matter what it is – you can be an engine mechanic or an aviator or you can be someone who loves their flower garden or the world of commerce or sailboats.
Do you ever have the feeling you’re a tourist on earth?
That which most concerns and worries you – your survival – is the only certainty you have.
You can’t solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don’t want problems solved.
Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.