La bella donna

Japanese proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Jeff Cooper say

Man fights with his mind.

surprises

There will always be suprises. So have a plan B and plan C.

Ashtavakra Gita

The fool tries to control his mind, how can he ever succeed?. Mastery always comes naturally to the man who is wise and who loves himself.

Diane Morgan say

Wisdom, however, is a curious being. She doesn't reside in one mind, in one time, or in one place. She's capricious, whimsical, and full of humor. She's freakish.

Sometimes she hides so deeply that only years of serious study can ferret her out. At other times, she appears unbidden, like a wayward child, when you least expect her.

Sometimes you glimpse her from far off, shining in the stars. In more domestic moods, she reposes in a card layout on your kitchen table, in a swirl of water, in your daughter's eyes.

Sometimes she vanishes altogether, and makes you curse the day you sought her out. She may reappear, however, an hour later, in the chance remark of your next-door neighbor.

She doesn't prefer one people, one climate, or one direction to another.

Extracts from samurai words and other great quotes

The ending

It is not exciting if the end is known.

Erasmus say

Give light and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Shakespeare say

To thine own self be true.

George Bernard Shaw say

Some look at things that are and ask "Why?". I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"

A zen master say

If I tell you the answer, I'll cheat you of a learning experience.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine say

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! and with all your might! make them hear you.

W Somerset Maughan say

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

Ralph Waldo emerson say

Each moment of the year has its own beauty, a picture which has never been seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Mark Strand say

Each moment is a place we have never been.

Dickens say

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness;

it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness;

it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us;

we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.

Estella

'So,' said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.'

Tolstoy say

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If you want to be happy, be.

Believer

When one person believe, he's a fool.
When one hundred people believe, they are idiots.
When ten thousand people believe, that's faith.

Jack Ma (Alibaba founder)

Clenched fist

Clenched your hand, it's a fist. Open your hand, it's a palm. We can only receive and give with an open palm.

Turning away

Do you know how far is the distance when we decided to turn away from each other and never look back.

Once around the earth. 

Turn your back and if we ever want to see each other again we have to go round the earth; that's how far it becomes.

Quotes from drama

If you are too lazy to look for the truth than you have no right to blame the person who lies.

What happens in life isn't determined by us. What we can determined is how we want to live and what attitude we want to live with.

Ritual

Ritual involving strenous and/or repetitive physical movements are meant
to free the mind of all frivolous thoughts and divert the focus to the point
of one-midedness or absolute concentration.

Jin Kwon

Seek a sanctuary

Seek a sanctuary. Respect it, as it is holy.
Walk into it with a bare mind, bare feet and plain clothing.
Nurtute your body, mind and spirit through a healing ritual.
Leave it with a pure heart until you find your way to it again.

Jin Kwon

Nicholas Sparks say

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can; and just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Immanuel Kant say

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant say

To be is to do.

What can I know? What ought I do? What can I hope?

Schopenhaeur say

Boredom is just the reverse of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than insde a situation, and one leads to the other.

Schopenhauer say

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Karl Marx say

Reason has always existed but not always in a reasonable form.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Karl Marx say

Religion is the opium of the people.