Sometimes the concept you're questioning makes more sense to ask just the second one and not the first one.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.