Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

You see, unlike in the movies, there is no THE END sign flashing at the end of books. When I've read a book, I don't feel like I've finished anything. So I start a new one.

One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t change them. Instead of intrusion and passivity, may I suggest submission? Some people make the mistake of confusing “submission” with “weakness”, whereas it is anything but. Submission is a form of peaceful acceptance of the terms of the universe, including the things we are currently unable to change or comprehend.