"Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" Quotes

The measure of an artist's greatness is the degree to which he stimulates the imagination of others.

Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

In our dreams we are all astronauts.

To be fully human is to be wild.

Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.