Archives - July 2020

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories --- and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you're in charge.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Paris is the greatest temple ever built to material joys and the lust of the eyes.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

You don't cure emotional eating by removing all comfort foods. You do it by learning how to comfort yourself.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

A strange side effect of sudden success is the sense that if you can succeed in one field, then it might well be worth trying to succeed in another.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Books --- the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.