When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed.
-Neil Maxwell
There are many people who fast, whose fast is nothing but hunger and thirst. There are those whose prayer is no better than wakefulness and hardship. The eating and drinking in case of the former and sleeping in the latter’s case is a far better option.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-William Arthur Ward
Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
-George MacDonald
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-G. K. Chesterton