You can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be people who hate peaches. - Dita Von Teese

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country’s spirit. -Jawaharlal Nehru, freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister of India

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne Williamson

In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.  – C.S. Lewis

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.  – C.S. Lewis

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir

If you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new.  -Philip Glass