Way Quotes - Page 470

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

Death is nothing other than a different way of being with an enhanced and broadened consciousness, which is everywhere at once because it is no longer tied to a body.

The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.

Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses me sometimes, but I don't want to forget her, I don't want to pretend she never existed. So before I start forgetting, I have to get down exactly who she was, and exactly how she felt about everything. She was me a lot longer than I've been me so far.

I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts... I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way, not just with regards to homosexuality.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

Death is just nature's way of making room for the less experienced.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?

If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.

Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.