If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.
Think higher, feel deeper.
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
True love requires sacrifice.
God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.
Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It’s knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.
The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart.
Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.