There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness…

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too...

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter...

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters’ inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

Life is a never-ending poetry of love.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

If life is an evolving process, then consistent change is the only resolving mechanism to problematic cases

The priest’s work, the priest’s service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God’s desire at Sinai – that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving...

i am here and now in all this Omnipresent , i am the universe.

We are scrambling desperately to make sense of our life and our world.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have

Hope blooms when the time is ready.

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, neatly kept world he so cherished rose up to confront him with all its essential sloppiness, irrationality, and bad...

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted...

Things happen, and nothing is for sure, but you just have to keep going, believing that one day, you’ll find something that is.

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn’t even a shed there, and she was shelling the bush. It appears the French had one of their wars going on...

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

If you don’t like the way life is going, then don’t complain, just change the way. You will have a new life.

And it occurred to me how even pulling trees that day, just months ago, I was in heaven. Unaware. I had known nothing even as the evil was occurring, I hadn’t been touched yet.

Life is so short, no time to spare, so choose carefully, love intensely and live blissfully.

IMPERMANENCE means that the essence of life is fleeting. Some people are so skillful at their mindfulness practice that they can actually see each and every little movement of mind—changing, changing, changing.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles “Pudge

ABC of a wonderful life: A man of the right ATTITUDE is GOOD; A man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR is BETTER; But, a man of the right ATTITUDE+the correct BEHAVIOR +an upright CHARACTER...

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something...

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered.

Certain moments in my life are imprinted in me memory.They’re easy to recall with perfect clarity, whether I want to remember them or not. Any small thing can trigger them: a phrase, a smell, a...

Live, let live, and help live

Can you all just do me one favor? Don’t take life for granted, because tomorrow isn’t promised to any one of us.

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources in spite of living in abject penury situations.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

I want to live not for selfish gain, but for selfless devotion.

Without dreams life is a desert,like a rose garden without rose.

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell...

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many...

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that...

And somewhereout there,in the river ofaddicts, alcoholics,wife beaters,doormats,overeducated legalized thieves,fascist police,and bitter rivalries—someone told meit’s a good city,and I don’t knowwhat’s more frightening

First, do what you fear the most.

I tend to be drawn to people who are similar. Very independent. And the ones who aren’t, it doesn’t work. It doesn’t last. I’m drawn to quiet people – certainly I am now.

It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.

When you have the ability to dream, you have the capability to do.

Life, love, boys—it was all about balance.~Anna Percy

Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger… it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we’ve fallen...

I’m not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I’m not the one who gets to decide what that is, if...