The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ”I’ve got responsibilities.”

Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

We are game-playing, fun-having creatures, we are the otters of the universe.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

,Tienes idea de cuántas vidas debimos cruzar antes de que lográramos la primera idea de que hay más en la vida que comer, luchar o alcanzar poder en la Bandada? ¡Mil vidas, Juan, diez mil!...

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.

There’s always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do.

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before,...

don’t you think between here and now we will see each other once or twice?

Os livros são escritos devido a anos virados do avesso por ideias que não nos libertam até serem escritas e, até mesmo então, a escrita é o último recurso, um resgate desesperado que pagamos para...

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.

Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the...

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents’ property or theirs to control.

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us...

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed…It feels an impulsion…this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the...

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing:The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.The original sin is to limit the Is. Don’t.

A name is a label, and as soon as there is a label, the ideas disappear and out comes label-worship and label-bashing, and instead of living by a theme of ideas, people begin dying for...

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.

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...

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren’t we already there?

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.

For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don’t show the million decisions that led to that moment.

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.

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.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have And step into the darkness of the unknown Believe that one of the two will happen to you Either you’ll find something...

Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real...

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.

Whatever harm I would do to another, I shall do first to myself.As I respect and am kind to myself, so shall I respect and be kind to peers, to elders, to kits.I claim for...

We are focus-points of consciousness, […] enormously creative. When we enter the self-constructed hologrammetric arena we call spacetime, we begin at once to generate creativity particles, imajons, in violent continuous pyrotechnic deluge. Imajons have no...

Live enough of what you’ve always dreamed of doing, and there’s no room left for feeling bad.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

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.

How can a deer tell when a leaf falls silent in the forest? She hears it breathing differently.

Fail at love, and the other tests don’t matter.

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

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.

Prisimeni kosminį dėsnį? Toks tokį traukia. Tiesiog būk koks esi: ramus, šviesus ir giedras. Kai leidžiame sušvisti visai savo esybei, kai kiekvieną minutę klausiame savęs, ar iš tikro norime taip elgtis ir darome tai tik...

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

Every word that judges value is circular. ‘Good’ is ‘right’ is ‘proper’ is ‘just’ is ‘good’. But check the examples, and they’re not circular at all: Every one says ‘makes me happy’.

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we’re afraid. We fear we will not find love, and...

Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven’t learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn’t learned to add or multiply, at least the first time.

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?