Bad times either destroy you or make you strong enough to be who you actually are.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
Whenever I'm feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.
And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.
Failure's not an option. It's just a step.
Medicine is not health care, Medicine is sick care, good food, vigorous exercise, Great friends, sound sleep, mental stimulation - that's health care. Write yourself a prescription.
Poetry is a sentence the soul of which is rasa.
If life were predictable it would cease to be life and be without flavor.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
