I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test.
Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn’t another dance left in me.
The examined life is no picnic.
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it.
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That’s what we do.
Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes – and you’re left the same as you begun.
Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
About winning and losing: It isn’t important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption – of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don’t be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.
Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.