Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you--just listen to The voice that speaks inside.
Then get busy and find out how to do it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.
Love knows how to form itself. God will do his work if we do ours. Our job is to prepare ourselves for love. When we do, love finds us every time.
It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.
Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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