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Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.
The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.
You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to have that kind of romance.
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.