What you seek is seeking you.
When the day feels flat
A flat day, with little getting through. These lines are quiet enough for that.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.
I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.
I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
The breezes at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
You carry within you a thousand gifts, but you are holding on to the one thing that keeps them hidden.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of boundless change.
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy.
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles.
With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move.
Everything is possible for one who believes.
What is impossible with man is possible with God.
I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The time is always right to do what is right.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Peace begins with a smile.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
We don't laugh because we're happy — we're happy because we laugh.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
We cannot selectively numb emotions. When we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
Happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.
The body keeps the score: if the memory of trauma is encoded in the viscera, in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching emotions, in autoimmune disorders and skeletal/muscular problems, it must be addressed in the body.
Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
The pleasure of finding things out is the prize.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it.
I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I did yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
In nature nothing exists alone.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Lost time is never found again.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other, milk.
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Some pains are physical, and some pains are mental, but the one that's both is dental.
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to bed with reluctance, yet once there, we do not want to leave.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the loving cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough.
Hollywood is the one place where you can die of encouragement.
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
Honesty is the best policy — when there is money in it.
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to.
There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to touch an electric fence.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Insanity is hereditary: you can get it from your children.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that whatever would get you grounded then gets you cheered now.
Onion rings are vegetable donuts.
Shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced on television.
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he is doing nothing, the probability is he is not taking a shower.
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
I slept like a log last night. I woke up in the fireplace.
I went to the doctor and he said 'You've got two weeks to live.' I said 'Can I have the last two weeks of July?'
I went to the doctors the other day. I said 'Have you got anything for wind?' He gave me a kite.
I went to the zoo the other day. There was only one dog in it. It was a shih tzu.
I met this man with a wooden leg called Smith. No, I don't know what his other leg is called.
A man walks into a bar with a piece of tarmac under his arm and says 'A pint for me and one for the road.'
I was in the supermarket and I saw a packet of bird's eye peas. I couldn't see the birds.
I went to the doctor and he said 'You've got a week to live.' I said 'Can I have it in August when I'm not doing anything?'
I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French. Surprised me, it came in a suitcase.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
I don't care to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.
Quote me as saying I was misquoted.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen... and replaced by exact duplicates.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Temporarily Stairs.' Sorry for the convenience.
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous — everyone hasn't met me yet.
While we wait for life, life passes.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Hope is a waking dream.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Laughter is the language of the soul.
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain.
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must not bore us.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Color is a power which directly influences the soul.
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.
Inside you there's an artist that you don't know about.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
Make the ultimate goal of your life Divine love, and surrender to it.
Always think of Me, be devoted to Me, worship Me, and offer obeisance to Me. Having dedicated your mind and body to Me, you will certainly come to Me.