"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character… Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity"
"Don’t let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed."
"I’ve come to the conclusion that the price of pursuing your craft is to feel alone sometimes, to know that you’re not understood by some, and to be comfortable with being uncomfortable."
"I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear."
"Don’t be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You’re not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don’t punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You’ll bounce back eventually. You’ll make up for it."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path."
"You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
"The future depends on what you do today."
"Maybe we are the way we are because of the people we’re with, maybe we just pick the people we need. However it works, when you find each other, you never let go."
"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others."
Eileen Caddy
