William Kent Quotes

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.

My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.

I write about the dark and the happy.

When you're at peace with your life and in a state of tranquility, you actually send out a vibration of energy that impacts all living creatures, including plants, animals and even babies.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

Happiness is one pole, sadness is another. Blissfulness is one pole, misery is another. Life consists of both, and life is richer because of both. A life only of blissfulness will have extension, but will not have depth. A life of only sadness will have depth, but will not have extension.

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things. All things have their backs to the female and stand facing the male. When male and female combine, all things achieve harmony. Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you, all of it - the murderer, the great mother, the therapist, the husband. Everything is inside of us.

We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.