Curiosity can only be called "fear of the unknown" only when you are in your comfort zone.
People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.
I just don't believe in wasting time. I see that all around me. People who live like they will be here forever. Using people, hating people, hating themselves, destroying the ones they love, destroying themselves. I believe in figuring out what you want and reaching out. And grabbing it. Is that so bad?
It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.
So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower.
In times of great darkness, courage lights the way home.
Become disinterested in your pain and suffering. Only then can you make space for your longstanding joy.
People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic.
You have power over your mind.Think great and be great.
I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.
Her laugh was like a bangle of bells.
“Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?”
“It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn.
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