Uncle Iroh

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

“It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.”

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

When enough people make false promises, words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better lies.

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you -- of kindness and consideration and respect -- not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

My library is an archive of longings.

Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Taught from Infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming around its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. 'So do I,’ said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.