Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
-Leo Tolstoy
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
-Alfred De Musset
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not knowing the consequence of good and evil karmas, he is afflicted and hurt. Nevertheless, he, due to his egotism, piles up more karmas and undergoes births and deaths again and again.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
A person once asked me in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: “Tell me, when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?” We must always consider the person.