“As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.”
“Where there is mind there is trouble.”
“لو ظل الإنسان وحده لما استطاع شيءٌٌ هزيمته.. يُهزم المرء بأشيائه التي يحبها.”
“You go to school everyday. Folks who think they ve learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.”
“A moment’s beginning ends in a moment”
“People have to forgive. We don t have to like them, we don t have to be friends with them, we don t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
“You know what Abnegation used to say about pride? Something unfavorable,I assume. I laugh. Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”
“Stand above this world - then it will be less likely to get your boots dirty.”
“You re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It s not your job to change these people, but it s your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness. I have always appeared to be fragile and delicate but the thing is, I am not fragile and I am not delicate. I am very gentle but I can show you that the gentle also possess a poison. I compare myself to silk. People mistake silk to be weak but a silk handkerchief can protect the wearer from a gunshot. There are many people who will want to befriend you if you fit the description of what they think is weak; predators want to have friends that they can dominate over because that makes them feel strong and important. The truth is that predators have no strength and no courage. It is you who are strong, and it is you who has courage. I have lost many a friend over the fact that when they attempt to rip me, they can t. They accuse me of being deceiving; I am not deceiving, I am just made of silk. It is they who are stupid and wrongly take gentleness and fairness for weakness. There are many more predators in this world, so I want you to be made of silk. You are silk.”
“Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn t measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It s not winning battles that makes you happy, but it s how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.”
“Ends are not bad things, they just mean that something else is about to begin. And there are many things that don t really end, anyway, they just begin again in a new way. Ends are not bad and many ends aren t really an ending; some things are never-ending.”
“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.”
“I am an extremely sincere individual. I am sincere, to a fault. One of the many things that I have come to realize, to learn, is that sincerity must be reserved and given only to those who deserve it. And one must save one s emotions, channeling them only to the people who are worthy of it. One must not throw one s pearls to the pigs.”
“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.”
“Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul.”
“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.”