Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.

Hitopadesa

Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?

Source Unknown

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

Daniel Dae Kim

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Max Muller

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

John Lennon

Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience

Mark Twain

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

Sakyong Mipham

If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

John O'Donohue

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

Henry David Thoreau