Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.

I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.

I know America's great not because I read about it in a book but because I've seen it with my own eyes.

I can confirm that I have been released from prison.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

I know I am delusional at times, but I'm not completely-out-of-touch delusional.

I never imagined that I'd be out of prison.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Don’t see the mind for more than it is, but don’t misread it for all that it can be.

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.

Without a pen in my hand I can't think.

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

A people that wants to be free must arm itself with a free press.

All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.

But...you could have whatever you wished." "Exactly," he says, nuzzling my neck. "But," I say, "you could turn stones to rubies or ride in a fine gentleman's carriage." Kartik puts his hands on either side of my face. "To each his own magic," he says and kisses me again.

Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.