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i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.
I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality.
I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.
All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
A little love and attention can go a long way...too bad more people don't realize that.
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.
You suffer because you try to fulfill yourself. You think of yourself in a limited way.
If you wish to cultivate humility, then you should associate with those who are humble.
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power.
I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.
If we view the universe as other than what we are, we are everything we don't perceive.
The awareness of liberation is not liberation. The awareness of time is not liberation.
On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.
Zen is meditation, the actual experience of life directly, immediately with no buffers.
Sex can never bring about enlightenment. Only enlightenment brings about enlightenment.
The Ten Commandments have a social purpose, for people who still need a social purpose.
There are many ways to meditate. When you meditate, you are learning how to feel again.
It is better to agree with a "wrong" idea than to press a "right" idea on other people.
Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.
Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.
Knowledge comes from personal experience of truth and awareness, not from conversation.
Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.
In Tantric Zen you can be humorous and make fun of anything or you can be very serious.
The mind of the child is not formed. We are shown that this is life, this is the world.
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.