"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.”

“I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—”

“We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.208, Adam, Stevenson

“My mother was pretty nuts, but she was also a character.”

Source : "Actress-director-producer Penny Marshall". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 27, 2012.

“We all love the first Rocky, but I’m not too sure about the last one.”

“Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.”

“It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?”