If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.Joey Adams
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.Christopher Hitchens
Even a peaceful person should know what violence is when necessary. Otherwise, the peace they possess is left to the mercy of the person who threatens them.Miyamoto Musashi
A peaceful man must still know violence, or his peace belongs to whoever threatens it.Miyamoto Musashi
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.Rollo May
I think in order to survive one must be reborn, one must overcome one's childhood, the injustices, and recognize the privileges. You can't use your past as an alibi.Leonard Cohen
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.William James
The great majority of men attend to what is necessary only when they feel a need for it—the precise time when it is too late.Napoleon Bonaparte
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.Vincent van Gogh
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.Master Oogway
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.Deepak Chopra
The universe is a multi-dimension al creative process, constantly forming new facets of possibility for you and all living things. Expanding our awareness of the process, we allow ourselves to experience more of it. Every moment we can remember that ANYTHING is possible in a realm of endless possibility.Marianne Williamson
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.Pema Chodron
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.Oscar Wilde
I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.Oprah Winfrey
Once we get used to listening to our dreams, our whole body responds like a musical instrument.Marion Woodman
When we are upset, it’s easy to blame others. However, the true cause of our feelings is within us. For example, imagine yourself as a glass of water. Now, imagine past negative experiences as sediment at the bottom of your glass. Next, think of others as spoons. When one stirs, the sediment clouds your water. It may appear that the spoon caused the water to cloud – but if there were no sediment, the water would remain clear no matter what. The key, then, is to identify our sediment and actively work to remove it.Josei Toda
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.Eminem
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much... The life we receive is not short but we make it so.Lucius Annaeus Seneca