Please remember: things are not what they seem.
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Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
Write about what you’re afraid of.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Good fiction is written by people who’ve read a lot of fiction. If you want to be a writer, read a lot, and as broadly as possible.
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet…maybe we could understand something.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
— Rumi, amazon.com
It’s a lesson in life—don’t look back, you’ll trip over.
Reality is a sound, you have to tune into it not just keep yelling.
Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.
I’m very perfectionistic and very lazy, which is a terrible combination.
Here is the simple truth about people: Love the ones you want to keep.
Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
The thing to remember about being a college freshman is that everyone is in the same boat you are. It's like alligators: they're just as afraid of you as you are of them.
Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer…