It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
There are people who are willing to protect freedom until there is nothing left of it.
-Heinar Kipphardt
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
It is still in the hands of psychology to free the person from his 'innermost pains
and miseries' that he endures at deeper level; but it is not in anyone's hand to
help him eliminate his ego-driven sorrows. This is where no one else, but only
he can help himself.
-Deep Trivedi
Compassion is fellow feeling or sorrow for the sufferings of another. Compassion opens the door for freedom and expands the heart. It melts the hardened and makes people as soft as butter.
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.