Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

I'm always trying to find ways to evolve. Evolution, for me, is a very spiritual thing, getting closer to the creator, closer to God, and becoming a better version of yourself.

I'm a person who's trying to live within divine law, to the best and it's very hard because it's self-discipline, because the more you realise, the more you've got to get yourself straight, so it's hard, you know. I'm trying and there are a lot of people who are trying, even people who are not conscious that they are doing it, but they are really doing things for the good, or just to be happy or whatever.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's Law out of the smallest. But to live your life you must discipline it. You must not fritter it away in "fair purpose, erring act, inconstant will" but make your thoughts, your acts, all work to the same end and that end, not self but God. That is what we call character.

Build a life, don't live one...

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

My driving force is spirituality.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I'm just very interested in how we, as people, can live the right way.