That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, "what?"
The rung of a ladder was never
meant to rest upon, but only to hold a mans' foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
If wishes were horses, beggars would rise.
Indecision is like a stepchild: If he does not wash his hands, he is dirty. If he does, he is
wasting water.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
I wish they would only take me as I am.
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.
Patience makes lighter what patience cannot heal.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is
truly important to other people.
Nothing can pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
The soul is the voice of the body's interests.
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the soul; but it has to come to heal.
I play tennis, but the trouble iwth tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
What's wrong with him?
My first thought would be a lot.
It's my daughter's birthday today, so please feel free not to
share everything with me.
I don't want to be judgemental, but this is just sick, sick and wrong.
Why go to a museum and look at paintings if you can paint your own painting?
They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to
do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums. But I see a
lot of people, a lot of my friends in the same predicament. Many times in my life, I was there
myself.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees.
Inspiration is someone who will let you know life will go on and something beautiful can
be waiting somewhere when you least expect it.
With what you don't know about me, I could just about fill the Grand Canyon.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. He to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand wrapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
It's not what you think you are that holds you back, it's what you think you're not.
People tell you to be yourself. . . like youself is some defined thing.
Other people think they know what you are: glamour, sex, money, power, love. It may be a
press agent dream which has nothing to do with you, maybe it's something you don't even like, but
that's what they think you are. People rush at you from all sides, they think they're going to
get these things if they touch you. It's scary, so you build walls around yourself, thick glass
walls while you're trying to think, trying to catch your breath. You know who you are inside, but
people outside see something different. You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you
are, or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am because the world could use
a few people like that.
After awhile you learn that what you really are is all the experiences and all the thoughts
you've ever had and all the people who have touched your life, no matter how briefly.
You are what you do when it counts.
There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others.
Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has
entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely
over-educated.
Close to tears, I held up the poor struggling crab and smiled for the camera, Mama and
Daddy, and everybody else who wanted me to be who I was not.
It's a very rare person who is taken for who he truly is.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Great is the human who has not lost his child-like heart.
You must allow people to be right because it consoles them for not being anything else.
It's like you agree to a personality, just to make it easier for everyone, but how do you
know if it's really you?
Be yourself and no one can tell you you're doing it wrong.
What you do in a dream might not be real in terms of the waking world, but that doesn't
change the fact that you have done it. That you are capable of doing it. If you kill someone in
a dream, you are still guilty of murder, even if there is no corpse when you awaken, even if no
one has really died. Because you would still have made the choice where it counted: inside
yourself.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good,
and how he treats people who can't fight back.
The stronger the breeze; the stronger the trees.
