Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
-Anonymous
If we only practice compassion at the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Everything is the Supreme Being, which is existence-consciousness-bliss. I am That. By constantly cultivating this pure thought, get rid of impure thoughts.
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
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.
-Robert Holden
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
-Robert Brault