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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more.
"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
Pffft, English. Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.
It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.
Jesus was himself the one convincing and permanent miracle.
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.
I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
If you ask for too much, you lose even that which you have.
I don’t like anything that’s got to be. I want to know why.
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.
Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.
Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
The queen of virtues is the recognition of one's own flaws.
It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.
He who is too well off is always longing for something new.
When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
The decent thing to do is to get rid of some of this money.