James Salter Quotes

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life.

I believe the more important thing is your mind and your heart. Those two things are the most ignored parts of our beings.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

We think too much and feel too little.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

Every day now, I discover something new. Go through phases in which I feel much more in touch with my feminine side in ways I never thought possible. I'm letting the woman inside of me speak, the desires of this woman, speak as loud as they can.