"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat."

-- Plato

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“Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends - truly knows - that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden.”

Source : Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.3, Indiana University Press
“One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.”
“In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.”
“It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don't matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable.”
“There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores”
“Itâ€™s funnyâ€”when people call you â€œshy,â€ they usually smile. Like itâ€™s cute, some funny little habit youâ€™ll grow out of when youâ€™re older, like the gaps in your grin when your baby teeth fall out. If they knew how it feltâ€”really being shy, not just unsure at firstâ€”they wouldnâ€™t smile. Not if they knew how the feeling knots up your stomach or makes your palms sweat or robs you of the ability to say anything that makes sense. Itâ€™s not cute at all.”
“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
“The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.”

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