Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.
Give them a conscious understanding of how powerful and important and valuable and perfect they are.
To open up the new, to look back on the old may bring forth like discoveries in the practice of art.
The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.
Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.
The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.
They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.
You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!
Cocooning: The need to protect oneself from the harsh, unpredictable realities of the outside world.
I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.
I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls.
We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!
There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings.
People who practice Zen correctly are not spaced-out or unrealistic. They are balanced and grounded.
Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.
There is no such thing as spiritual achievement; it is simply an awareness intrinsic to all of life.
Those who dissolve their body of perception completely are absorbed into what we would call nirvana.
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
I think the very best thing you can do is observe what makes you stronger and what makes you weaker.
The last game on earth is in progress. And when you lose, you win. And when you win, you can't lose.