“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.” 

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

“No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.”

“What hurts us is what heals us.”

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

“When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.”

“Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone’s eyes.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.”

“And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”

“All you have to do is pay attention: lessons always arrive when you are ready.”

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” 

“One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.”

“You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

People are poor judges of importance and inflate minutiae to fill time and feel important.

Great creative work isn’t possible if you’re trying to piece together 30 minutes here and 45 minutes there.

It doesn’t take much to seem superhuman and appear “successful” to nearly everyone around you. In fact, you just need one rule: What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.

Most “superheroes” are nothing of the sort. They’re weird, neurotic creatures who do big things despite lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.