“Personal sustainability — sustainability at the personal level — may be the most fundamental form of sustainability we should tackle, because without it, other forms of sustainability may become improbable or even impossible.”
Source: The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
“Human nature decrees that becoming forever passive is a forlorn hope. the best to hope for is long periods of calm between bursts of conflict”
“rags to riches lets one look back at poverty with eyes full of fondness”
“We are built to act first and reason later. Our minds construct rational stories to justify emotional truths that our bodies have already accepted.”
Source: Intentional: How To Live, Love, Work and Play Meaningfully
“What is either to the intricacies of women, who reach both?”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was still on my campus in India, I was convinced, like many professors, that if the Lord was to be found anywhere, it was in the lower stacks of the library. But now - just as when I go into a big department store, I can say, "How many things I don't need! How many expensive suits I don't want!" - when I enter a big library I say, "What tomes I don't have to read again! What folios I will never open!" This feeling of freedom will come to all of us when we realise, in the depths of our meditation, that all wisdom lies within.”
Source: The End of Sorrow
“Which is more intricate?” he mused. “The designs of men, trying to reach gods, or that of gods, trying to reach men?”
“What is either to the intricacies of women, who reach both?”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Dying, after all, is the risk of killing.”
Source: The Knight and the Moth
“Sometimes it's only through acceptance from which we find answers.”
Source: Bodega Botanica Tales: Jose
“We always imagine the possible things, and these possibilities make us believe whatever happened, happened”
Source: Sukoon