You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.
A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.
We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion.
If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.
The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.
If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too.
People who are hard on others are usually very hard on themselves, and the pain they inflict on others is a reflection of the pain they inflict on themselves.
Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.
We conform to pain until we don't notice it anymore; it's what you call — numb — and it tragically blots out our pleasure too.
A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.
When you walk in peace you will literally see attackers shattering themselves against your inner-calm.
We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.
Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.
When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.
I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live.
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
