Learn the rules so that you know how to break them properly.
Dalai Lama

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson POM

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. -- Heda Bejar

"I want freedom for the full expression of my personality."
― Mahatma Gandhi

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. -Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, and playwright (1799-1837)

Emerson reminds us: “Do the thing and you shall have the power.”

Live to give everything away
So nothing keeps us apart
Love brings you here; Light-atom pulsing
Always, at the Sun's heart.

Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey)

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James

Emotionally, there is not such thing as safe sex.
-Pirate

Emotionally, there is not such thing as safe sex.
-Pirate

"cause, you do not gather her beauty by plucking her petals. What you have left after that is only thorns!!!