wisdom

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

"Purity of heart is what enables us to see."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"You have to be ill if you want to get better."

"To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier."

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

"I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine, one of the nation, of many nations, the smallest the same and the the largest"

"Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love."

"Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you."

"I would rather carry around a plastic bag with five thousand Euro inside, than carry around a Louis Vuitton/Gucci/Prada bag with only one hundred Euro inside!"

"There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself."

"I cry, but not for myself. There’s too much sadness in this world to waste a moment with self-pity, when making others smile will also make me smile."

"I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them."

"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."

"The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances."

"The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival."

"See, the ‘small stuff’ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is distorted. They ignore ‘small stuff,’ claiming to have an eye on the bigger picture, never understanding that the bigger picture is composed of nothing more than-are you ready?- ‘small stuff’."

"That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't."

"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."