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Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.
As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time.
Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.
When we truly are putting others first, we cannot but feel at peace with ourselves.
I am a New Zealander, but I don't want to swallow New Zealand identity in one gulp.
The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.
Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.
I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together
And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No
Live a little. Laugh a little. Love a little. Happiness will find you in a big way.
Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
You're financially independent if you have $15,000 coming in and $14,900 going out.
I think one of the battles for fiction writers is how much to invent or exaggerate.
Any room in our house at any time in the day was there to read in or to be read to.
You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination.
Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.
The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.
my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.