Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between permanent and impermanent, pure and impure, bliss and suffering, Self and non-Self.
A sacrifice is a gift of the essence or the product of our lives. It may be a gift of our time, a gift of our talent, or a gift of our treasure.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
-Michael Jordon
There is freedom in stepping out and taking risks when you know at any given moment, you can always begin again.
-Eva Gregory
Hostile attitude only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton