"When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world."

“The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here and now and for particular individuals. Absolute truth is imaginary, abstract, vague, without evidence, and cannot be demonstrated.”

“Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.”

“If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?”

“A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

“You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.”

“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”

“I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Responds to Being Body-Shamed on Instagram: 'I'm Not Going Anywhere'". www.glamour.com. December 2, 2015.

“I think that if everyone did at least embrace a more plant-centered diet, it would improve public health.”