“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were?”  ― Jodi Picoult

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”  ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

It is a great injustice

and a monumental

act of cruelty

for any religion

to make someone fear God.

-Hafiz

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
~ Albert Einstein

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
~ Sydney J. Harris

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama