... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires and ideas.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

In running, I can internalize that intensity. I can handle it because it's me and I'm coming back in the next race. I'm always ready for the next race.

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

My answer to a lot of things is to go to work. That's not everybody's answer.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Practically all SF is trash.