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All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.
Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.
Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.
The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
My sight My heart My Life All three words I have woven into one ... Love.
Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.
A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.
If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.
There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.
War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy
Man is a Creature of a wilful Head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up
The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
Much of my time is taken up by reading, researching and trying out ideas.
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.
I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.
To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.
Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good.
The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.