“when people ask me how i've built my following, i tell them this: i work REALLY hard, i TRY to be good and kind to people 100% of the time, i read a lot, i accept my failures, i try and remain present, and i try to live and love with intention.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.…”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life. Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“To keep the proportion of things and give place to others without losing one's own position was the secret of success in the mundane drama. We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.”— Kakuzō Okakura, amazon.com
“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”— Eleanor Hibbert, Victoria Holt, goodreads.com
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“A cucumber is bitter— throw it away. There are briars in the path— turn aside from them. This is enough.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”— Carlos Castaneda, goodreads.com