When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
-Dalai Lama
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
-Ayn Rand
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
-Titus Maccius Plautus
They are forever free who renounce all selfish desires and break away from the ego-cage of ‘I’, ‘me’, and ‘mine’ to be united with the Lord. Attain to this, and pass from death to immortality.
As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
Can the world exist without one to cognise it? Which comes first the being-consciousness or the rising-consciousness? The former is always there and eternal; the latter rises and disappears. It is transient.
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
-Nora Ephron
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
-Tennessee Williams
Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to soothe and inspire the two individuals.
-Christian Cantrell