"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
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"If I’m committed, there is always a way."
"The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization."
"The spirit of delight comes in small ways."
"I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it."
"The superior man is never in anyone's way."
"I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in."
"[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more."
"The right way to go easy is to forget the right way."
"It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways."
""Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness."
"Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already."
"The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace."
"The purpose of a spiritual path or religion is to provide a precise and believable way into what seems unbelievable."
"I saw it written and I saw it say Pink moon is on its way And none of you stand so tall Pink Moon gonna get you all"
"I think if you truly believe that something should be that way then you should push for that."
"I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not."
"You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way"
"If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help."
"In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do."