wisdom

"Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young."

"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."

"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."

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."

"Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”—Zarost"

"I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)"

"I'VE LEARNED THAT YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK ABOUT YOU.THE BEST YOU CAN DO IN LIFE IS NOT PISS YOURSELFOFF."

"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."

"Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law."

"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

"I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself."

"In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man."When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body."

"I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki"

"What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free ofattachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones."

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."

"Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them."

"The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you."

"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

"Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul."