At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
Everyone finds satisfaction in the place that suits them.
Why can't the rest of the world hear it? - I ask myself. In a few seconds I ask myself many times -. Because they don't care - I finally respond, and I know I'm right. I have the feeling that I have...
All my friends seem to be smart arses. Don't ask me why. Like many things, it is what it is.
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...
I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is.
He felt that now over his every word, his every deed, there was a judge, a judgment, which was dearer to him than the judgments of all the people in the world. He spoke now, and along with his words...
At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can travel and the borders we will never cross. And we go from there.
You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.
She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.
there is a difference between denial and delusion. The difference is that denial is a fun game and delusion is pitiable and requires meds that you will be too delusional to enjoy.
He sees all kinds of sins in himself – and all kinds of accomplishments too – but he refuses to connect them with himself or his identity. So, although he knows himself to be the chief of sinners,...
Feeling is the language of the soul.
Your story does not live in your soul, only in your mind.
Whatever good things you've heard about me probably aren't true. Whatever bad things you've heard are probably just the tip of the iceberg, I said.
It might have helped us considerably to have been shown, perhaps through some simple exercises in elementary school, that we are not our thoughts, that we can watch them come and go and learn not to...
Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you...
All people are both the objects and the perpetrators of prejudice. Our understanding of the prejudice directed against us informs our response to others.
You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.
You'd have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to know what you're getting yourself into, so if there's blame, blame yourself.
"Oh, it's lovely to see you!' Franny said as the cab moved off. 'I've missed you.' The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all."
That hurts my pride, Watson. It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now...
Happens to me all the time... People are always underestimating my dumbness.
You cannot find someone who does not want to be found.
You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.
The man who believes he can deceive the system and deceive us is definitely mentally ill.
Emotion is first of all and in principle an accident
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others....
Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own "body music."
His horse stumbled in the tussocky ground and made him realize, then, how thoughtlessly fast he was riding... how thoughtlessly fast he was thinking.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...