3,733 Quotes About Advice

Contrary to public opinion, writers are not crazy. It takes a very sharp thinking, an extremely high ability for reasoning, and a very clear mind to write easily, quickly and with value. Whoever prides himself for preparing a short book for more than a year, shouldn’t be proud of his achievements, for such attitude pollutes the truth in art with a lie, and deceives the population into following the wrong leaders and reality changers.

Death only exists for the personality and not for the spirit.

Don’t feel guilty about what you couldn’t do for a living person after that person dies, for the dead understand the living beyond what they can see about themselves. They will see what you can’t see and know what you can’t understand yet.

Don’t let your thoughts be defeated by your brain. Don’t let your brain be defeated by fear. Don’t let fear be defeated by experience. Don’t let experience cloud your discernment. But do look, and see, and act according to your heart, and waste no time in doing that, for time is more limited than your perception of it.

Doubt is all that is needed to undo anything.

Dreams change the structures of thought. You can only achieve and work for what you can see first in your mind. Therefore, you shouldn’t be jealous or confused in regards the doing of others, or what you can't do, but rather learn from everyone.

Each person has a peculiar life with good and bad things in it. Do not merely focus in the good things others achieve, because you’re not aware of the price they’re willing to pay and that you might not be able to bear in the same way they do.

For an existential problem to be overcome, it must be experienced in the form of a projected and dramatized dilemma.

Focusing on the need to have an answer to a problem increases that need by attracting more problems that justify it. If we think that the problems are different, in the need to understand them all, they will multiply among themselves. But these problems can all be eliminated with a meditation on the purpose of our existence.