A world full of "certainties"All the plans, all the vanities. Where black covers the white Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight. A million roads I dream to take One destination, knowing not I turn where. A green veil covers for two years, some two decades. But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make. I pant, I struggle, I do my best While they say,"You are, dear, but so inadequate".

— Sanhita Baruah

Don't let society fool you into believing that if you don't have a girlfriend or boyfriend then you're destined for a life of misery. The Dalai Lama has been single for the last 80 years, and he is one of the happiest people on earth. Stop searching for happiness in places outside yourself, and start finding it where it has always been: within you.

— Miya Yamanouchi

God hides great things in little things. In every young girl, God hides a great woman; in every young boy, He hides a great man; in a small seed, He hides a big forest! A little is never inadequate if God's hands are its creator! Don't despise little things!

— Israelmore Ayivor

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

— Ann Rinaldi

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel my abilities into the wrong places.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It’s great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards its destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life - to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquilized or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes - whether of dullness or fury - successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies - unconscious strategies- to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too - sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling - and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. You know how in couples one person is always doing all the weeping or the raging while the other one seems so calm and reasonable? I understood that feelings were difficult for me, although I was overwhelmed by them.

— Jeanette Winterson

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.

— Anthony Liccione