Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you,the turquoise sky above you,the amber mountain beneath your feet,and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over,love being the new black,and compassion going viral.

If you lock the door on sorrow,how will it leave your heart?

Passion without perseveranceis fire without fuel.

If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy.It's you.

If you fatally kill fate,your life sentence will beto steer the reins of choice.

Stress is a dragon.Believe in it and you’re toast.Slay your stress.

Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego.

Lovers navigating with different moral compasses causes the relation ship to sail in circles.

Peppering your relationship with a dash of mystery can make it far more palatable.

Setting sail using different moral compasses causes a relationship to go in circles.

It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time.

In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.

Identical twins do not possess identical souls.

Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes.

When you fall in love, do not fall out of yourself.

To enter your true self,check your ego at the door.

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror.

A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart’s desire.

Stats don't measure an athlete's hunger.

Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.So that your heart mends and heals.

Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished.

Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

Sometimes more is hidden behind a truth than a pack of lies.

A pregnant pause with enough gestation can give birth to a well formed idea.

A mask is what we wear to hide from ourselves.

Behind every face lies a mask. Behind it lies another onion layer of mask. If you peel the skins, you may cry.

Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover.

Be careful that the cost of weighing the purchase of an object does not exceed its intrinsic value.

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.

Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf.

10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.

If the present is left unopened,now, it is closed.

If what you want does not exist, why not create it?

Monoculture is mono for the earth.

Excessively sweet praise can rot your ego over time.

The tastiest berries are often hidden.Do not despair if you haven't found true love.Look under the leaves and branches of convention.

Being alone is not synonymous with incompleteness.Having a partner is not a precondition for completeness.

Every atom in your body spins and danceslike a bee around the queen,like a whirling dervish,like the stars spiraling in a galaxy.Yet why do you sit motionlessly watching Dancing With the Stars?

If nostalgia holds you hostage,the ransom is the present.

If you lend the present, it will never be returned.

Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community.

To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

Perfection can be a mask for imperfection.

Perfection can mask imperfection.

Perfection can hide a lot of warts.

At the blind date,deafen your earsto hear the wordsspoken with her eyes.

A tightly woven argument is more impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

A hundred square feet of heaven is far more precious than a million square feet of hell.

Tears wash away the soot of indifference.

Unbridled talent can handicap you with hubris.

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, the walls surrounding a medieval castle: obsolete walls evoke nostalgia. Make your walls obsolete.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies,a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.

Journalism delivers news, but not necessarily relevance.

You can say nothing by saying everything. You can say everything by saying nothing.