It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
John PhillipsWhen you finally realize that peace is your natural state of being then you will know that any form of non-peace is a belief in illusion. Illusion that anything should be something other than what it is which can never be so. What if instead of waiting for what isn't to become your version of what is, why don't you be peaceful right now while you alter what isn't for you if you so choose? Is it ever worth it to wear a cloak of non-peacefulness over God Brilliance?
John PhillipsUltimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
John PhillipsNo amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?
John PhillipsThe way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.
John PhillipsMy galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.
John PhillipsWhen I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
John PhillipsWe will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.
John PhillipsShould and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.
John PhillipsThere is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
John PhillipsWhen the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
John PhillipsIf you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.
John PhillipsIt's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.
John PhillipsTechnology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
John PhillipsWe constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.
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