Life is both pleasure and pain, is it not? But why should we cling to pleasure and avoid pain? Why not merely live with both? If you cling to pleasure what happens? You get attached, do you not?

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

When I lean my ear up against your seashell heart, I can hear an ocean of love roaring inside.

Can't Live with you and I Cannot Live without you

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Corruption is a resultof low standardson local, national and global level.My works : Petra Cecilia Maria HermansNetherlands, TILBURG, August 17, 2016

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.