The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Author: Kahlil Gibran

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.

If you love somebody let them go, for if they return they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.