The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

Within the category of Kitsch we can thus distinguish between more and less successful paintings. Kitsch, too has its masterpieces.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

The Kitsch consumer wants to be enchanted.

Not all kitsch is sweet.

How easy it is to wax lyrical over despair, to wallow in it, to enjoy it. This too is kitsch

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

What if you have all the pieces and the puzzle still doesn't fit?

Not everything needed to be processed. Some things needed to be ignored and slept on.

... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.