Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune. . . Income seldom exceeds personal development.
What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.
Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 911, it became important for those stories and that human element, for the Muslim, the Hindu, the Sheikh communities to be heard. That's what I hope I get at with the music.
Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.