Life

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Compassion

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

― Dalai Lama

A Door of Opportunity

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

― Milton Berle

Nothing Is Impossible

“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”

― Deepak Chopra

Burn Yourself

“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

Man and Trials

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Spiritualitas dan Cinta

“Spiritualitas itu sekali lagi adalah cinta, asal dari segala eksistensi, yang di dalamnya terhimpun segala kebaikan, keadilan, kebersamaan, kearifan dan kasih sayang.”

― K.H. Husein Muhammad

Keberanian dan Kesabaran

“Kalau Anda berani, Anda akan mencapai yang besar. Dan kalau Anda berani dan sabar, Anda akan mencapai yang tadinya tidak mungkin.”

― Mario Teguh

Anger

“Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”

― Buddha

Make My Days Better

“I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.”

― Henry David Thoreau