A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
Home and journey together constitute the creative polarity of the heart, the two dimensions we must cultivate if we want to 'develop the heart.
Gratitude is here presented as more than a feeling, a virtue, or an experience; gratitude emerges as an attitude we can freely choose in order to create a better life for ourselves and for others. The Nigerian Hausa put it this way: Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.
What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.
We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free. ' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.
Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.