"As your act of dedication in this world you must finally surrender your own life to a life of service."

“If you are aware of your humility, then you are arrogant.”

“We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.”

Source : Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

“The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last”

“A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the pain and yowls at the weapons that lacerate him; the great poet explores the inflamed lips of ruined flesh with ice-caked fingers, glittering and precise; but ultimately his poem is the echoing, dual voice reporting the damages.”

“A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.”

Source : In a letter from Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton, 9 March 1792: F. V. Barry (ed.) 'Maria Edgeworth: Chosen Letters' (1931)

“I learned that once it's over, it's really over, and to not take anything for granted.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.”

“When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.”

Source : Denton Welch (1952). “The Denton Welch Journals”