In the universe, nothing is either beautiful or ugly, but our perception and thinking makes it so.

I don’t want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I’m ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

Philosophy is a bitter medicine with many fearsome side effects, but if you are able to stomach it, it can cure your soul of the many ills and infirmities of ignorance. Given the choice, most...

Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same...

In all of its operations, cinema ceaselessly strives, and fails, to make present a world hopelessly beyond grasp. For this reason cinema is, in its very nature, a nihilistic medium.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and...

It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind...

Enjoy every moment. Today will never come back.

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Those who tried to fill the void with passion, were engulfed by it’s flames.

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.

People who live up to their words shouldn’t make blind promises.

Lying is an art, if you can convince yourself with lie, then you are a master.

When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help.

There’s a school of thought today that rejects patriotism. People are made nervous by that intense allegiance to a country. They think it can only lead to war and bloodshed and that fights can be...

{From Lindsey’s address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank. Burbank was one of the most beloved people in the early 20th century due to his countless contributions to humanity, but when, in an...

If you lose the power to love, you lose the ability to live.

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

They didn’t realize that her clumsiness was not the ordinary kind, not poor coordination. It was just because she wasn’t sure where the edges of her body ended and the rest of the world began.

Don’t try to touch the love, it may burn, just try feel it with your heart.

Consistency is good, but progress is better.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Love is an attraction of mutual happiness.

The weight of wait.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not...

Let there be love. There will be light to show you the path of life.

Few moments are so special that they should be recognized by special expressions.

Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but...

Whenever you see the fear and sadness,be there the source of love and kindness.

We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a...

Might-have-been are insidious, aren’t they, in the way they don’t ever quite lie still or go away.

Let me love and feel the charm and joy of life.

You will get your father’s wealth one day but not his legacy.

Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you’re oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That’s why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty...

Love everything around you as if everything is yours.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

Formation may be the best name for what happens in a circle of trust, because the word refers, historically, to soul work done in community. But a quick disclaimer is in order, since formation sometimes...

… primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice – as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history –...

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Oh! let me love for ever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never. Oh! Let me love forever. Let me dream in love. Without power of love, life...

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

To influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there...

I don’t care if you love me or not, but I care that I love you without any thought.

I WISH YOU ALL THE REALITY YOU COULD EVER WANT. HANDLE. WANT.

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

Education is meaningless without manners