When the student is ready, the master appears.

Buddhist proverb

Starting is easy, persistence is an art.

German proverb

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

Zora Neale Hurston

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

Life needs both: thorns and roses, days and nights, happiness/unhappiness, birth/death. Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death; something that is beyond darkness and beyond light; something that is beyond happiness, beyond unhappiness.

Osho