I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future.

there is no significance in life without struggle

She knew there were only small joys in life–the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through–and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the...

…there is something very vital happening when we breathe—without it we die—but trying to speed it up, force it, grasp it, push it away or control it tends to get in the way. As in...

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what...

You get to be about eleven or twelve and everything’s old hat. They’ve drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don’t want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything...

To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do—to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst—is, by that very...

He said, ‘Dad, I don’t want to be at an office the rest of my life,’ … He felt committed. He liked helping people.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that...

War never can bring peace but a caring heart with love can do that.

If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their...

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Life is like a flowing stream; once the flow stops, our life becomes stagnant. When we remove the dams and debris we have accumulated and encourage it to flow freely, it becomes a source of...

RIGHT living guarantees a BRIGHT future

We don’t live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people’s experience as a reference too.

Life has an end. We are all on a transit.

Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw...

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love.

But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a...

Inconsistency is a part of life, consistency is a part of .

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is...

We don’t experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds; they are intertwined and holistic.

The most wonderful pleasure on earth is in saving treasures in heaven… The most wonderful treasure lies in the pleasure of doing so… Live life so well!

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about

Don’t be so hard on yourself, don’t put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you’ll be perfect when you’re dead.

Here are five rules of thumb, should all your fingers on one hand turn into thumbs and you decide to rule them.1. There is no day too dull, no problem too great that cannot be...

Things happen or they don’t happen, that’s all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an agony because we’ve lost the habit of falling asleep. We...

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

As we look into a clear night sky, we see just a fraction of what the universe contains. This applies to human behavior too. As we look at a person, we only see a fraction...

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

There is no other you on earth, that’s why you’re the best

The key to a good life is simplicity,yet creating simplicity is so complex.

We were really shaken by the vandalism. It was such a disruption to everyday work life.

Countless people live their whole lives without ever knowing this…this unnameable thing that we share. This exclusive and secret club that we are so blessed to be a part of. I suppose that by many...

If you have a drop of violence or anger in your mind, it can ignite a candle and be the source of violence, so be kind.

Love is born from disagreeing over something we believe in. Hate is born from disagreeing over something we fear.

When people say “you’ve changed”, what they actually mean is that they don’t like the fact at all that you’ve stopped tolerating their bullshit.

We’ve replaced nearly all our emotions with fear

Our purpose in life isn’t to arrive at a destination where we find inspiration, just as the purpose of dancing isn’t to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing...

Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think.

The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.

Even blind alleys lead somewhere.

There’s a thin line between an uncertain ‘Yes’ and a certain ‘No’ known as ‘lame indecisiveness’.

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.