#pa

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around. ↗

— Elin Stebbins Waldal

#healing-the-past #strength #abuse

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain. ↗

— Holly Black

#despair #sad #conflict

Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn’t allow if I wanted to survive. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#adult #child #connection #fingers #ghost

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#education #humane #mogo #nation #patriot

there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst. ↗

— Stephen King

#preparedness #king

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#sacred-space #space #yoga

Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#jesus #mohammed #patanjali #truth #yoga

These Sutras are reminiscent of the Four Noble Truths of Lord Buddha: the misery of the world, the cause of misery, the removal of that misery, and the method used to remove it. Patanjali tells us that pain can be avoided. He further tells us that its cause is ignorance. (115) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#ignorance #pain #yoga-sutra #yoga

Yes, my mind was wandering. I wished I were there with someone who could bring peace to my heart someone with whom I could spend a little time without being afraid that i would lose him the next day. With that reassurance, the time would pass more slowly. We could be silent for a while because we'd know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation. I wouldn't have to worry about serious matters, about difficult decisions and hard words. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#worry