Roland Barthes Quotes

Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

I do not know if you have ever noticed that the more you struggle to understand, the less you understand any problem. But, the moment you cease to struggle and let the problem tell you the whole story, give all its significance - then there is understanding, which means, obviously, that to understand, the mind must be quiet.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.

I think we understand people frustration. We certainly don't want to make it worse.

My message for people to not take anything for granted, to respect what they might not understand.

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Self-care of all kinds is a huge part of my life. I really encourage other women and other people to really put self-care - and that includes the beauty regime, how you eat, all of that - into your body.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

Whatever it is, people have issues and that affects you deeply. So you have to get to the bottom of it and not let that affect your life decisions and really understand why you're making the decisions you make so that way you can understand how to not do that, so I always encourage people to ask why and then to really understand you, because that's the only way to be your most successful and your most happy.

To act is easy; to think is hard.