inspiration

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

"The asana practice is extremely powerful and unique in design. In addition to improved flexibility, circulation, muscular strength and increased energy, and detoxification of the organs, each pose unblocks life force energy (prana) pathways in your body, reprograms your cellular DNA and connects us to our spiritual origin."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one."

"Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."

"Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters."

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you."

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

"I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters."

"It is not so much the major events as the small day-to-day decisions that map the course of our living. . . Our lives are, in reality, the sum total of our seemingly unimportant decisions and of our capacity to live by those decisions."

"It is key to remember we can maintain a genuine enthusiasm and love for what IS, in the PRESENT moment, enjoy it with gratitude for all of the blessings in our lives."

"Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

"If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband."

"Just as it is knownThat an image of one's face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of "I"existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe "I"does not at all exist as its own reality."