"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."

“In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.”

Source : Masao Abe (2016). “Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue: Part one of a two-volume sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.15, Springer

“With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.”

“Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (1985). “Rites of Passage”, Henry Holt & Company

“When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.”

Source : Source: www.goldensufi.org

“I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.”

“One of the dirty little secrets of the stock market rally is that the rising corporate profits that powered it are largely phantom profits. They are artifacts of currency devaluation, not an increase in efficiency or production of goods and services.”

Source : "Phantom Profits Will Vanish As The Dollar Strengthens" by Charles Hugh Smith, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2012.

“When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279”

“Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.”