If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter. But if you continuously compete with yourself you become better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rZtdUjLxc For women, being exposed to overly perfected images of women, even briefly, can trigger body shame, body dissatisfaction, depression, anxiety, and eating disordered attitudes and behaviors. Stop comparing yourself to others, it is killing you. Comparison kills joy. ...

I have been a prostitute and I wish I had never started it. I thought about all my options, but it did not seem like I had very many. I lived always the life of party and tried to be the center of attention. I was the person who introduced people to other people. I made ...

You are really nothing more than just the result of some random process that happened in this universe; the dice were rolled and you just happened to come out you. But really you are not anything special. You are really not anything more valuable than the dirt blowing down the street. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y8bKdOtn4E There was an exhibition at the ...

You are what you eat, or you are how you eat. Your eating habits reveal your personality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K4W6DpuGI4 After everyone has finished their meal, the slow eater takes his sweet time and is always the last person to finish the meal. Slow eaters are people who like to be in control and know how to appreciate life. Slow ...

Are you born with your character, your intelligence, your sexual identity or do you form these essential parts of who you are because of the life you lead. Are you determined by your race, your ethnicity, your nationality, your religion or do other factors play as large a role in your life today. Your DNA is unique ...

If I were the devil ... If I were the prince of darkness I’d want to engulf the whole World in darkness, and I’d have a third of its real estate and four fifths of its population. But I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree: thee. So I’d set about ...

Cinema is a language. It can say things, big abstract things, and I love that about it. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words, but cinema is its own language and so you can express a feeling or a thought that can’t be conveyed any other way. It’s a ...

Imagination is the exercise of generating new and novel mental images. Imagination is the critical link connection between what is and what might be. Imagination is an orientation to the World that emphasizes engaging alternative perspectives and creating new possibilities for action. Imagination is a difficult skill to teach. Poor leadership may in part be described as a ...

In Tibet it is believed that the Dalai Lama is a manifestation of Buddha of compassion who chooses to be re-birthed in the service of humanity. Dalai Lama means 'Ocean of Wisdom'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZ68sowWTc The great ocean has eight wonderful and marvellous qualities: The great ocean becomes deeper very gradually, not suddenly. The great ocean is stable; it ...

To understand the World you are brought face to face with obscure concepts, difficult physics problems, and theories that are as complex to postulate as they are to validate. You are dealing with elusive questions at the very edge of Human understanding , where it does not help to consult physics textbooks or history because nothing of ...