Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!
The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'
He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.
The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.
It's very painful to lose, and it's a very difficult process to go through, especially at a place like UCLA where the standards are very high.
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel.
I used to come home crying at the beginning, 'cause I was playing against high-school guys, college guys, and I was like in the sixth grade, so it was tough.
