We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.

It's important that we see clearly with wisdom and awareness, but also take action.

The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

We're not as different as we think we are.

We live with that sense of not being enough, and it causes a very painful state.

I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind

Find inner peace? I looked; it wasn't there.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

I have no faith in my ability to judge things.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.