Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
-William Cowper
When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.
-Steve Maraboli
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
Both the good and the pleasant present themselves to a man. The calm soul examines them well and discriminates. Yes, he prefers the good to the pleasant; but the fool chooses the pleasant out of greed and avarice.
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.
To cultivate a garden is…to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.