That Is Life. Quotes
Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.
Through our expectations, we violently expand and try to fill the world with our proofs of worth.
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.
Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.
Concepts are not real things
Each person is a vast territory of undiscovered mystery as nebulous and uncharted as the deepest oceans and expanses of space.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I’d ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.
For me, those weeks in Boston, with Wilma, became a lesson in her ability to be “of good mind, ” in her phrase, which also meant a people’s ability to survive.
If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.
If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.
Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.
It’s alright. It’s okay if it’s about your ego. Sometimes it’s got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.
He wants to punish me because I do not conform to his view. Well I am just telling him that he cannot punish me. I am beyond his ego and punishment.
Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.
Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.
All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.
Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?
The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise
By honoring and responding to your natural and essential requirements for sleep, food, water and movement, you will rise out of the realm of survival into the world of fulfillment.
How do you fill the space between, "God says it, " and, "I believe it, "?
Because we have only one (life) we go about blundering along him nervous haste.
Faith enables you to hold on loosely without letting go.
We were made to be distracted by life, by story.
Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.
The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.
Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...
She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for "Escape from a deserted island.
Oh hell no, I thought. I am not wasting my first kiss on some guy who's skipping out on our first date.
Stop to kiss, the kissing gatedemands, and so do we, its fines.
Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.
You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else’s hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.
The belief that others think they are right doesn't mean that they are.
Nobody would have been able to understand the depth of my joy and the extent of my happiness unless they had themselves gone through what I just had.
What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.
Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.
Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.
Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be.
By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.
In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.
When we see someone or something as imperfect, it is a reflection of our limitations, not theirs.
Nothing will hold you back because you expect the unexpected. With a clear vision for your life, you are better prepared to combat any opposition.