For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a new kind of society, a new relationship to the earth, a new experience of being human.

How do we change the world? Change the story.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

An economist says that essentially more for you is less for me, but the lover knows that more for you is more for me, too.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.

What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

A woman’s smile will always make a good man’s day.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

Get rid of all the hesitation, it's time for you to seize the day.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support and then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.