Leo Tolstoy

The Kingdom of God is Within You,

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Everything depends on upbringing.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within- strength, courage, dignity.

The mirror can lie, doesn’t show you what’s inside.

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

I’m a lightweight, easy to fall easy to break.

Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth, who won’t accept deception instead of what is truth.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

Baby, that’s just me.

I can’t bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?

I am an eternally deluded person. No one is as deluded as I am. How clear this is to me when I do zazen!

Imperfections make you beautiful, they make you who you are.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decide that the best way forward is to take some time off.