retrospect

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.

Bittersweet is the practice of believing that we really do need both the bitter and the sweet, and that a life of nothing but sweetness rots your teeth and your soul. Bitter is what makes us strong, what forces us to push through, what helps us earn the lines on our faces and the calluses on our hands. Sweet is nice enough, but bittersweet is beautiful, nuanced, full of depth and complexity. Bittersweet is courageous, gutsy, earthy.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

There are 2 types of artists—those who know what they’re doing when they start out, and those who don’t who just trust their instincts.

I cannot rid the entire world of noxious problems, but I can patiently cultivate the good earth around my own two feet and grow what I wish to see in my own back yard.

It’s hard convincing yourself that where you are at the moment is your home, and it’s not always where your heart is. Sometimes I win and sometimes not.