“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
Shari R. Barr
Writers are
“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
A Lee Martinez
Waking up is
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be“
Alan Watts
A child is
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Freedom is
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness is
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark Twain
Kindness is
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Mark Twain
Conscious breathing is
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
Thich Nhat Hanh