Way Quotes - Page 108

If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

I had my baby around 20 and I was always working on music, but I was always working on music, but I was doing other stuff as well.

The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.

When life is hard, remember - we are not the first to ask, 'Is there no other way?

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

If you're on the path you're meant to be on, everything falls into place; the Universe is telling you that. If you are not on the right path, you will experience roadblocks all along the way, and this is also the Universe telling you to stop, look, and ask if this is where you are supposed to be.

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

You can't teach others if you are living the same way.

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Brancusi made me realize that what I had learned previously — the quick ways of doing things — was all wrong... It is not the quick solutions. It is not something you learn and apply. After all, it is a search you have to enter into yourself.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.