“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli     “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli     “The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli     “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli     “There is no other way…

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh   “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh     “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh     “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh     “Letting go…

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.-F. Scott Fitzgerald       I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.-Neil Gaiman       Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.’-Alfred Lord Tennyson       Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.-Ralph Waldo Emerson…