Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
-Khalil Gibran
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
-Ernest Hemingway
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
-Dalai Lama