I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
What you are is God’s gift to you; what you make of it is your gift to God.
-Anthony Dalla Villa
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
Like other particles of the world even "ego" cannot be destroyed. Yes, it can
surely be transformed into soulful qualities... But the moment any "Buddha"
attempts it, fearing extinction, ego not only resists but also activates its self-
defence mechanism.
-Deep Trivedi
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
Those who see all creatures within themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no fear. Those who see all creatures in themselves, and themselves in all creatures know no grief. How can the multiplicity of life, delude the one who sees its unity?
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
-George Bernard Shaw
Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
-Shannon L. Alder