On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality; but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

We continue to need exhortations to be sympathetic and just, even if we do not believe that there is a God who has a hand in wishing to make us so. We no longer have...

Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you’ve had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when...

It’s normal to shy away from illness and death. It’s natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

I write to create a sky where the moon can touch the sun and not get burned.

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

Let’s live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

Listen, children:Your father is dead.From his old coatsI’ll make you little jackets;I’ll make you little trousersFrom his old pants.There’ll be in his pocketsThings he used to put there,Keys and penniesCovered with tobacco;Dan shall have the...

‎”If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was...

Open up your heart and mind to the infinite wonderful experiences there are in life.

Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.

You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...

If I have to question a friendship, then it wasn’t a friendship to begin with.

Captivity ends when creativity begins

The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world...

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Once I am alive, I still have the chance to live rightly for the rest of my life.

People mess up, you know? But you can’t see past it. It’s like you choose one thing about them—the worst thing—and say, ‘That’s who they are,’ and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose...

I don’t believe that aliens exist,but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief.

Wish for the best, prepare for the worst

Action is the universal language of success.

True education kindles the student’s mind but teaching fills the mind with information.

Puis il réfléchit: la réalité ne coïncide habituellement pas avec les prévisions; avec une logique perverse, il en déduisit que prévoir un détail circonstanciel, c’est empêcher que celui-ci se réalise. Fidèle à cette faible magie,...

War can’t bring peace in the world; only understanding and love can do that.

To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.

Life is great with positive outlook on life.

Don’t seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow. Seek to be kind, and you’ll find the rainbow follows you.

And how am I supposed to find a husband if I can’t have a boyfriend until then?” I asked ironically.

Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts.

Imagine that you are stuck on a long train ride and must choose one of two books to read in order to pass the time: the first is a novel whose main character is an...

Love others, not because they deserve your love, but because you want to win their heart to create enduring peace.

Resentment generates hate; love tries to understand.

You must not only exist in the world, live life.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition.

Life is just so interesting and complicated and beautiful. Every day, every interaction is different. There’s so much floating around that I would find it really hard to get bored. I’m interested in creating in...

God is not someone you meet when you die. His smiling face will be the first and the most familiar to greet you on the other side of mortality. You’ll recognize Him and know in...

It’s about the quality of the worry,” I said. “I have happier worries now than I used to.

As fi vrut sa pastrez doar creierul primitiv, sa ma topesc de dragoste si sa ma invinetesc de ura, sa salivez, sa gafai, sa tusesc, sa stranut, sa sughit, sa-mi bata inima si sa-mi filtrez...

To change yourself, change the perception and mindset.

Igen: élni, míg élünk,Igen: ez a szabály.De mit csináljunk az életünkkel,Ha fáj?Élni, míg élünk

It feels great to be alive.

It doesn’t sound logical to say that a man is an atheist just because he’s probably someonewho knows his own God…personally.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one’s own resources.

Excess of happiness and excess of sorrow, both are hazardous. Emotions require a balanced diet too.

So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed by either of them. If we are lucky in this uncertain...