I think that as you evolve spiritually, automatically your body tells you what is acceptable for your body and what is not.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Dark times don't create stars

Conformity rules society not wisdom or simplicity.

Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline simulated fear postulates courage simulated weakness postulates strength.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.