I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
-Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more "deceitful" than ego in this world. If you want to see,
carefully observe the people who unnecessarily show high moral, talk ethics,
visit temples or strictly follow rituals. Their entire being reverberates ego, yet
they are unaware of it.
-Deep Trivedi
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
-Abraham Maslow
He who is too sure in time of peace, will often show himself to be downcast or fearful in time of war.
-Jesus Christ
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
-Norman Vincent Peale
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
-Confucius