In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.
I broke the first rule, the unwritten one, meant not just for warriors but all of us: I took love and used it as a balm to soothe my ego.
Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.
Each word she’d set down in the journals was a gift and a wound.
We cannot force ourselves to love—or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.
You did what you were supposed to. Played your part perfectly.
Why are you attracted to self-sabotage? I
There’s always a connection, a reason because of which people enter your orbit, bristling with dark energy like a meteor intent on collision.
The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them. And: When a man reaches a state where honor and dishonor are alike to...
The mark of a wise man is that he changes his mind when he sees mistake.
The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.
The dream is a mirror showing me my beauty. I bless the dream. The dream is a mirror showing me my ugliness. I bless the dream.
Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering
Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?
Now that she no longer cares whether tears blotch her letter, she feels no need to weep.
Mostly their troubles were minor ones, for they followed a healthy lifestyle, waking at sunrise to bathe in the river, then spending long hours in study or prayer, followed by daily chores, simple mea...
Most of all, I understood that things happen to us for many complicated reasons, arising from both the past and the future.
Love comes like lightning , and disappears the same way..If you are lucky it strikes you right..
Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor t...
Isn't that what truth is? The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him- into the very earth and air and water- until there's nothing else.