inspiration

"It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime."

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."

"Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

"When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future."

"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."

"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."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."

"Joy is the fountain of youth."

"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up."

"I believe the way to master my destiny is to serve others. If I raise up others, am I not also raised up?"

"Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open."

"A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly."

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."

"There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistake–he could no longer get at."

"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse."

"Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now."

"Imagine others complexly."