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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
When you have too many top priorities, you effectively have no top priorities.
You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.
In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us.
A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
Art isn't and shouldn't be responsible. If it is, it isn't functioning as art.
The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.
Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.
The definition of an asshole is someone who doesn't believe what he is seeing.
If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.
I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.
It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.
We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
The multiple choices of possibilities of daily life are the music we dance to.
Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.
He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.
The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.
There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.
Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.
When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don't let the fear paralyze them.
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.
When we turn pro we stop running from our fears. We turn around and face them.
People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.
Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know.
Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.
I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.
Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.
If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world.
You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.
When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.
Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes.
Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.
Never try to pull someone up who doesn't want it...they'll just pull you down.
The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!
Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.
I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo