wisdom

"Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you."

"We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature."

"Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest."

"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."

"The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination."

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."

"Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men."

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."

"My hands will get dirty holding your rose-shaped heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive."

"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body."

"I observe and remain silent."

"But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none."

"Books fall open, you fall in."

"you have to love something before you can hate it."

"Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, "So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control."

"Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself."