Middle age is a time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
-Richard Armour
There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.
-Robert Brault
There really is nothing called superiority complex on the level of mind. What
we know as superiority complex is nothing, but an act or attitude exhibited by a
person to cover up what pinches him the most, deep within.
-Deep Trivedi
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: Routine.
-Honoré De Balzac
To exercise forgiveness is a great act. Forgiveness is equal to ablutions at all places of pilgrimage. Forgiveness ensures your salvation. There is no virtue equal to forgiveness.
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.