That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
-Kalidas
That happiness which comes after misery is all the more enjoyable; it is to one scorched in the sun that the shade of the tree gives exceptional relief.
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit.
I’ll wear two swords, a sword of shakti (power) and a sword of bhakti (meditation).
No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst that it inevitably changes.
-Lisa Kleypas
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
-George Bernard Shaw
Each age has its own heroes, who in its own eyes are greater than all that went before.
-James A. Froude
The difference between love and happiness is that those who talk about love tend to be in love, but those who talk about happiness tend to be not happy.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
-Eleanor Roosevelt