The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people will spend it for you.
-Peter Shaffer
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.
Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul.
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
-Jean Cocteau
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
-Edmond De Goncourt
The person who does not love himself, though he may abstain from meat in the
name of non-violence; his mind can never be non-violent.
-Deep Trivedi
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
-George Washington