If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.

And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up.

Terry Pratchett

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

Christopher Lasch

Aikido is Love.

Morihei Ueshiba

Mówi?, ?e kiedy rodzi si? cz?owiek z nieba spada dusza i rozpada si? na dwie cz??ci. Jedna trafia do kobiety, druga do m??czyzny... Sens ?ycia polega na dnalezieniu tej drugiej po?owy.Po?owy swojej duszy.Po?owy siebie.

Paulo Coelho

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals.

Oscar Wilde

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Baltasar Gracian

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Denis Waitley

All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

That old law about an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

Warren Bennis

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox