William Berry > William Berry's Quotes

“If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”
― Steve Martin

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.”
― Karen Marie Moning

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”
― Natsuki Takaya

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are”
― Anaïs Nin

“It is not so much that we have a self, it's that we do self-ing.”
― Rick Hansen

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“[on the secret to a happy, content life]

Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you a will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace. ”
― Ajahn Chah

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you
don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not
doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or
less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have
problems with our friends or family, we blame the other
person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will
grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive
effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason
and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no
reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you
understand, and you show that you understand, you can
love, and the situation will change”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
― Ram Dass

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill