I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
Let go of the need to control. Trust in the wisdom of a divine plan.
Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.
If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.
If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.
People start to heal the moment they feel heard.
There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.
Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.
Sanaz Minaei [business woman] shows a visitor a cooking class at one of her several companies and says the opportunities for Iran are huge if only the country can rejoin the global economy as promised.
I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.