In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through forest, some unfinished bios was, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then lie would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.