Who against hope believed in hope.
-Bible
True realisation of the actual nature of this material world, its perishable, transitory and illusory aspects best dawns on a person in suffering.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
-Nikola Tesla
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.
-Robert Brault
At the time of God-realisation, nothing new is realised; on the contrary, the yogi feels that this state of God-consciousness which he is experiencing was already known to him.
If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
-Hermann Hesse