"All objective pleasure in the long run..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature.”

“YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind.”

“There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.”

“Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.”

“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

“There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.”

“Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.”

“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”