Do not be frightened, friend. Let us dance our way to God.

-- Kamand Kojouri, The Hakawati

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

-- Osho, Being in Love: How to Love with Awareness and Relate Without Fear

I loved you at your worst, and you were always at your worst. Nothing could stop me. Not even you.

-- Denice Envall, Entice

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

-- Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Hidden

State first, subject second, statesman last.

-- Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

The Savior ,the Lord Jesus Christ is holy servant.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Life Should Be Simple and Easy: If You're Doing It Hard, You're Doing It Wrong

Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.

-- Nathan Reese Maher, Brave New World

I look back now with amazement at the small accidents that put certain books before me.

-- Vince Passaro, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

To wonder is to be wise.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita, Queen of This Realm

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

-- Debasish Mridha, Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

-- Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

-- Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Surviving a Spiritually Dormant Society

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

-- Frances E. Willard, Why We Can't Wait

I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind.

-- Debasish Mridha, Lagoon

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

-- Jalal Al-e Ahmad, The Fulfillment of All Desire: A Guidebook for the Journey to God Based on the Wisdom of the Saints

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

-- George Eliot, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

-- Dean Koontz, Dead and Alive

When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.

-- Lolly Daskal, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

-- Kahlil Gibran, Words to inspire the winner in YOU