New Year Mantra 2022: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. ”

“It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.”

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

New Year Mantra 2022

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.”

“But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”

“The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?

“Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.”

“You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.”