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“The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.”
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“Most of the smart things I've ever thought or written came vis-a-vis my body.”
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“We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.”
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“Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.”
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“If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.”
Source : Robert E. Ornstein (1988). “Psychology, the Study of Human Experience”, Harcourt College Pub
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“Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.”
Source : Masaaki Hatsumi, Ben Jones (2004). “THE WAY OF THE NINJA: Secret Techniques”, p.178, Kodansha International
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“Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.”
Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.1, Tuttle Publishing
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“The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.”
