To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher “reality”...

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over,...

Dad’s death didn’t hollow me out the way Helen’s had. After all, everyone had assumed Dad was a goner back when he got kicked in the head as a child. Instead, he had cheated death...

Nothing Is Important, Yet Everything Is Important

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods’ gift of a stronger morale...

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

You will be loved as much as you expect.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Ye Chand Yahaan kuch chattanon se fisal raha hai…Sayad tumhare yaha kisi daal se jhool raha hoga.Chalo kuch to hai Jise hum dekh lete hain ek sathjaise ek laltain ko dekh karKayi Khaidi guzar dete...

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners’, everyday citizens’] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator,...

Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It’s all there — passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to...

happy” animal exploitation.

Dare to BeWhen a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.When something...

I think for a time I was unsure what love meant. And now at least I AM sure that a very big part of it involves caring about someone SO much, that you find yourself...

Oh! let me love forever. Let me die in love. Life is valueless dust if love touched you never.

Faith doesn’t get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss…. We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because...

if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened...

Happiness comes from actions.

Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.

Comparison kills…There will always be someone ahead of you and someone behind you in life…When you see someone behind you…feel blessed for you are ahead of them…When you see someone ahead of you…feel inspired for...

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Tonight, two kids ask for an alms (they are asking for food) from me. In a moment I remembered the days I was starving, the days I lowered my pride and dignity just to ask...

Like madness is the glory of life.

There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.

I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take,...

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Live what you be, not what you see.

Some things are better ‘left’ as they are…unresolved but evolving…

When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

The best exercise for your biceps would be to uplift the down trodden in this society and bring them to our eye level, who knows your vision might also improve! So lift up the down...

When you consistently look for the positive things in life it becomes a habit.When you consistently look for the negative things in life it becomes a habit also; therefor, the choices that you make becomes...

My heart was still beating, I was still breathing, but was living something more?

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like a book to me – the only book I ever learned to read; and...

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

You cannot change anything if you cannot change your thoughts.

What values do achievement, degrees, and diplomas have if you don’t have wisdom and love?

If I had to wish for something, just one thing, it would be that Hannah would never see Tate the way I did. Never see Tate’s beautiful, lush hair turn brittle, her skin sallow, her...

Dusza jest niczym płomień świecy. Choć ją zgasisz, maleńki węgielek, szarara, żarzy się w ciele. Z czasem się wypali. Ale zanim to nastąpi, ktoś kto jest biegły w nekromancji może rozpalić ten duchowy popiół, przywołać...

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

I wonder if that’s how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don’t want it to win.

Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going...

I could have been a lot more, if the reason to was you