“I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can t imagine them properly now.”
“Our inner wisdom is persistent, but quiet. It will always whisper, but it will never stop knocking at your door.”
“How could a man know the truth of his own soul?”
“Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.”
“The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.”
“I know that I’ve never been perfect. I think we determine what’s perfect to us. I think we understand perfect doesn’t come perfectly. If I was to be bare face or a face full of make up. I won’t be perfect until I determine what I see as perfect enough.”
“I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.”
“Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.”
“Our lives consist of a series of internal battles, deep within us, where weapons don t exist and technology is unable to create devices that better the best of yesterday. Our knowledge is our only defense; caution, our only friend.”
“Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you ve gained.”
“We are creatures of habit more than we are creatures of change.”
“Once you start settling, and letting others control your life, it can quickly become a habit, so it’s best to avoid such things altogether.”
“Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.”
“A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.”
“Sometimes the heart can hear what the ears do not.”
“Some only follow the holy man while others only follow the warlord. But the truth is, both sides are within all of us, and if people could only see that, they wouldn t have to wear masks, or pretend to be holy like a holy man, or pretend that nothing can hurt them like a warlord. They could just be themselves, unjudged.”
“Sometimes it s best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.”