Category: Author Quotes

Fall seven times and stand up eight

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it

Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement

Never love anyone who treats you like you are ordinary

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one’s soul

I could never understand ethnic or national pride. Because to me, pride should be reserved for something you achieve or attain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn’t a skill, it’s a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn’t say “I’m proud to be 5’11”. I’m proud to have a predisposition for colon cancer.” So why the fuck would you be proud to be Irish, or proud to be Italian, or American or anything?

A smile is the best makeup a girl could wear

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace

The more things seem to change, the more they stay the same

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

It’s so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can’t say the things you want to

Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other