I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
-Jean Cocteau
Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendour you need to burn in the fire of love.
A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, the realm of death and the realm of the gods. A disciple in training will investigate the well-taught Path of Virtue, even as an expert garland-maker picks flowers.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa