What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn't step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem. Ingratitude is the appropriate response to a kindness that has hooks on it. Headstrong is another word for trusting your own heart.

In a cookie factory, different cookies are baked in the shape of animals, cars, people, and airplanes. They all have different names and forms, but they are all made from the same dough, and they all taste the same.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.