The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Søren Kierkegaard
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
Marina Abramovic
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
Johnny Cash
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Laurell K. Hamilton
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.
Penn Jillette
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
Charles Lindbergh