Archives - October 2021

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

Courage is being scared to death --- but saddling up anyway.

Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve.