John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio quotes

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.
-- John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

#Teaching #Learning #Joy

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.
-- John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

#Focus #Simplicity #Vision

Life is short and far too fragile. Whatever you dream of doing, begin. Put a first step or a "down payment" on your schedule and make it happen. Create memories. Have fun. Have an adventure. Take a (reasonable) risk. Be audacious. Laugh out loud. See what happens.
-- John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

#Life #Motivational #Dream

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.
-- John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio

#Writing #People #Achieve

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

When I saw the plane, I was absolutely astonished! Two emotions crashed over me: surging joy and crazy fear.