Way Quotes - Page 80

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with - that’s the way I was raised - but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

That's the new picture of the good life that I want to paint - living the way that God created us to live. That's what the good life is.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.

If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.

Innovation is the only way to win.

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

I'm not gonna change my way of dance because I lost and the judge tells me I should do it a certain way.

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

You gotta say what you say, Don't let anybody get in your way...

The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.