Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador retriever that drags you out into traffic.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.
If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.
We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.
We live in all we seek.
You can't test courage cautiously.
You search, you break your heart, your back, your brain, and then-and only then-it is handed to you.
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