Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
-Steve Maraboli
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
-George Washington
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-Yves Saint Laurent
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
There is only one way to fight adverse circumstances... Whatever you can, you
must immediately do and then wait...if even after waiting, you are unable to find
a solution, then accept it and think ahead.
-Deep Trivedi