Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Love gives beauty to everything it touches. Not greed and utility; they produce offices, but not dwelling houses. To be able to love material things, to clothe them with tender grace, and yet not be attached to them, this is a great service. Providen”

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more”

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

“Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”

Cracks in the concrete are just constant reminders that you fall apart no matter how strong you are. but the road is always fixed at one point or another,

"Bhakti is the one essential thing.
To be sure, God exists in all beings.
Who, then is a devotee? He whose mind dwells on God.
But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
The water of God's grace cannot collect
on the high mound of egotism. It runs down."

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

A person who irritates you always is the one who loves you very much but fails to express it.

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need”

“Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.”

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. 

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

The ultimate measure of a person is not where he/she stands in moments of comfort, but where he/she stands at times of challenge and controversy.

1. God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends”

Don't be too hard on yourself.
There are plenty of people willing
to do that for you. Love yourself and
be proud of everything that you do.
Even mistakes mean you're trying.

“A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.”

Rumors are like wildfire; you are burned up before you know it.

True creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you tap into the highest form of creativity possible--recreating your perceptions of reality.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Education is the gateway to the art of living.

A painter paints on canvas,but a musician paints on silence.