A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

Success has nothing to do with what we accomplish for ourselves, but the amount of hard works we put forward to others

When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.

The great heart of comrade Kim Jong Il has ceased.

As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.