“Outside you actions don’t exist, outside you history doesn’t exist, outside you future doesn’t exist.”
“Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.”
“First of all I express sincerity. There s also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because of it. They need to smile and realize how ridiculous everything is. A race without a sense of humor is in bad shape. A race needs clowns. In earlier days people knew that. Kings always had a court jester around. In that way he was always reminded how ridiculous things are. I believe that nations too should have jesters, in the congress, near the president, everywhere.....You could call me the jester of the Creator. The whole world, all the disease and misery, it s all ridiculous.”
“If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?”
“The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It s the ultimate self-delusion.”
“I m extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.”
“There s not a lot to do when you don t want to do anything.”
“Remember that this is YOUR LIFE, and nothing is more important than YOU.”
“The more you ve struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don t give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.”
“When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness... remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.”
“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.”
“I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can t imagine them properly now.”
“Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.”
“How could a man know the truth of his own soul?”
“Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.”
“The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.”
“I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.”