The final need is unconditional love. This is a difficult concept for many to understand. I discuss this need further in Chapter 15.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
The best thing you can wear is self confidence.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.