We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
-Sigmund Freud
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them.
-Steve Maraboli
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
-Mother Teresa
If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.
-Sri Chinmoy
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni