All good poems are victories over something.
-Stephen Dunn
Let us live happily, we who have no impediments. We shall subsist on joy even as the radiant gods.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
-Henry David Thoreau
When you know you own God you will not be in a hurry to get something out of God.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-H. L. Mencken
To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give, that takes courage because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.
-Madonna
Unconditioned compassion overcomes all forms of obstacles, doubts, fears and expectations. Unconditioned compassion and loving kindness go beyond all boundaries, not only physical boundaries but also mental ones.
Only he, who lives freely can enjoy life to the fullest. An egoist can never live
freely. And it is also true, how can a person tied up in numerous bondages do
anything else but die each moment he lives?
-Deep Trivedi
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley