top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Keep passing the open windows."
Standard
Customized
More
"One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease."
Author Name
Personal Development
"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let the moment be memorable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being
"Half my life is an act of revision."
Life
"More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina."
Life
"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."
Reading
"No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him."
Family
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason
"Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy."
Nostalgia
"If you care about something you have to protect it " If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
Courage
bottom of page