In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
-Dalai Lama
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
-George Bernard Shaw