For the first time in a long time a bit of something I was unfamiliar with crept up inside me. If I hadn’t known better, I’d have thought it was hope.
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess." "And everything awful used to be something good.
Forgive me," I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.
Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom; in freedom alone can there be creativeness.
If I follow a particular method of knowing myself, then I shall have the result which that system necessitates; but the result will obviously not be the understanding of myself.
They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.
Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.
But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self will understand.
All I can think is that I want her more than anything. I want her more than I've ever wanted anything, ever.
The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.
For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.
Every couple has ups and downs, every couple argues, and that’s the thing—you’re a couple, and couples can’t function without trust.
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.
It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
For the first time in ages I felt a tiny pinprick in my heart--not like it was breaking, but like something small and unseen had begun sewing it closed again.
