Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

— Jared Brock

It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It's so strange how life works: You want something, and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens, and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up at that moment before things changed.

— Lauren Oliver

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

— Nina Hrusa

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

— Haruki Murakami

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell.

— Josef Pieper

May you find the strength to courageously live through any situation.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

— Plato

One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.

— Ryan Lilly

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

— Kahlil Gibran