One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.
My own grandmother went to great lengths to make sure I knew simple things like how and when to open the door for a lady. And the best thing my mama taught me was to pray.
Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing
Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.
Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.
I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.
I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things.
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
By the practice of being honorable in small things each day, one eventually becomes honorable in all things every day!!!
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart.
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.