The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through experience.
-Swami Vivekananda
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
-Arnold Bennett
You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love.... You don’t love another, you are another.
-Stephen Levine
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Love doesn’t please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.
-Kerrelyn Sparks
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
It is one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem.
-Lord Byron