Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Bernard Loiseau

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable.

Steve Maraboli

A good man is called a man by his works

Tshikororo Raymond

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.

Stephen Richards

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Joshua Loth Liebman

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!

Joyce Maynard

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Jesse Ventura

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Paula Cole

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson