I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.
You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.
A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.
If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That’s all there is to it.
Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.
Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
don’t you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.
A moment later Jonathan’s body wavered in the air, shimmering, and began to go transparent. “Don’t let them spread silly rumors about me, or make me a god. O.K., Fletch? I’m a seagull. I like to fly, maybe…
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one famiy grow up under the same roof
I’ll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.
In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
But one creature said at last, “I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It’s Intimacy
What matters most:”What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.”Wind, Sand and Stars.
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you’re a master, and you are.
No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, ‘I’ve gotresponsibilities.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go….
We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.
What the caterpillar calls a tragedy the Master calls a butterfly.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves no matter how unpleasant are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn whatever steps we take they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
Can miles truly separate you from friends. … If you want to be with someone you love aren’t you already there?
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer and practice it.
The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.
I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.