Almost Quotes

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run…the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

To accept the degree of surrender needed to literally let go of all experience and all self-reference. Even in great revelations, there is almost always something that wants to claim, “I am this.”

By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything..like..a starry night in the mountains, or even the existence of fate.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Research shows that the happiest people are those who use their natural talents to the utmost.

All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.