Way Quotes - Page 530

When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Know that you were made [the way you are] for a reason.

There's no better way to process pain than to write.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

Stage acting is a very difficult thing - and I've learned a lot and have a long way to go.

Every aspect of your life is greatly influenced, day in and day out, by the way you imagine life to be. Imagine the best, choose the goodness, and "be a source of love and light for all to see.

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

There's nothing that says you have to succeed in the same way as someone else. In fact, there's nothing that says you must define success in the same way as someone else.

We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

My whole effort is to help you to disappear. My whole effort is to help you to be so empty: anatta - non-being. Because if you are, you will remain in trouble. If you are, you will remain limited. If you are, there will be a definition to your being - and you will never be overflowing. Only emptiness can be overflowing, only emptiness can be at ease. Only emptiness can be life abundant. To be, the way passes through non-being. If you really want to be, you will have to drop all concepts of your being. You will have to disappear, by and by. You will have to melt into nothingness.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

And scandal has a way of catching up with those who disregard its power.

One of the ways that my show has been most successful is when it's dealing with women's issues, like Spanx and plucking and having heavy tits. That's why it feels like, creatively, an advantage.

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.