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Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, "I am the only common denominator here.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
If you say one thing, and do something different, how can your conscience trust you? Self-trust comes from integrity.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Don't be the slave for the society, be the entrepreneur for yourself.
— Ade Santi
The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show them how we feel.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Remove your blindfold-you can see bread or gold where others see stone
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking Closed Doors
A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite
— Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth
A Godly Person Is Living Simple And Yet Happy An Ungodly Person Is Living Luxuriously And Yet So Sad
— Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
At this time in history, sick, afraid, and despondent are the general conditions that affect the majority of poeple almost everywhere. It's difficult and challenging to follow the call of conscience when we're under the dark veil of these forces. At the same time, it's painful not to follow it.When you become healthy, courageous, and hopeful, following your conscience becomes easier. When people are healthy, courageous, and hopeful, it's difficult to bend their mind and will. You can't force them to do what you'd like them to do against their will. They will speak out what they believe, and stand up and do what is right even when it means a loss to them.I am hopeful because I have witnessed this change throughout my life. From the realization of what I really am, I became hopeful, courageous, and passionate for life, and I felt responsible for the general condition of humanity and the Earth because they are not separate from me.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Ultimately, it's my choice and only my choice.
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Always
You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness
— Mooji
Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.
— Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
I spent too long worrying about what other people think.
— Miranda Kenneally, Things I Can't Forget
A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.
— Shannon L. Alder
Self-realization or self-knowing or awakening is about knowing/ becoming conscious of our true nature and living in harmony with the universe in an ever ascending order.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Play Dice
You are what you believe as expressed by what you do
— Amine A. Ayad, Leading Through Diversity: Transforming Managers Into Effective Leaders
The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age
— Barbara Leaming
Maybe it's me. Maybe I don't know how to have fun.
— Louise Rozett, Confessions of an Angry Girl
I do not take advice or listen to the words of hypocrites or beings that are not self-realized. It's nothing personal. I am simply no fan of beings that try to sound wise, while trying to mask their imbecility.
— Lionel Suggs
The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way!
— Rossana Condoleo
He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .
— Sheridan Hay, The Secret of Lost Things
All success comes through other people.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
I won't explain why. If you're interested, you'll find out who I am. One clue, I'm a ghost.
— Eka Prasetyani
All are at war with the one who wars against self.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Poetic License
When the jīva, reflected consciousness, has its inert association with the body totally destroyed and ignited by the fire of jñāna, it burns in the huge and extensive cremation ground, the cidākāśa. The vision of this excellent effulgence is similar to the sight of an unbounded conflagration that rages when a vast forest, dense with dried trees, catches fire and spreads in all directions.
— Muruganar, Guru Vachaka Kovai
Her mother had once told her that one could run away from home, from husband, from children, from trouble, but it was impossible to run away from oneself. "You always have to take yourself with you," she said. And now, bending towards her mother, Hope wondered if in death you were finally able to run away from yourself. This might be death's gift. She knew that the thought wasn't terribly profound, but she was moved by the notion of completion and of escape.
— David Bergen, The Age of Hope
I think I've been afraid most of my life to be myself.
— J.A. Redmerski
Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru, Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.
— Jack McDevitt, Firebird
I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
You know how sometimes you can be going along and do something or say something, and suddenly you *know* yourself? I mean, it's like you're looking at somebody else, and it's just so fucking clear you want to hit something.
— Sarah Monette, The Mirador
There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.
— Kim Chestney
Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?
— Adi Shankaracarya
Whatever you are seeking is also seeking you.
— Shakti Sharan
What makes the self?Experiences. Acculturation.What else?I don't know.What's within you.She says, I don't know what was within me and what got put there by my life as it was lived.You can never know that.No.But there is a you that was there before you were born and that nobody shaped or changed or could have changed.
— Carolina De Robertis, Perla
Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
— Christopher Markus
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
— Voltaire
Disappointment will come when your effort does not give you the expected return. If things don’t go as planned or if you face failure. Failure is extremely difficult to handle, but those that do come out stronger. What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that’s where you want to be. Disappointment’ s cousin is Frustration, the second storm. Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life – friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.
— Chetan Bhagat
Life is a constant process of dying.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary. From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates.
— Epictetus
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.
— Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
— Dean Koontz
But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
— Jostein Gaarder, Maya
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
— Will Durant
When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing.
— Carroll Bryant
All I know is that I do not know anything
— Socrates
Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget.
— G.K. Chesterton
He shook his head pityingly. “This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.”“Not all men are destined for greatness,” I reminded him.“Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I change the world today?”“This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.”“No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?
— Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
— Bertolt Brecht
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
— Albert Camus
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.
— Phyllis Diller
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.
— Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you.
— E. Lockhart, The Boy Book: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them
It comes from within.
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
No matter where you go, there you are.
— Keith Caserta
Reality - Dreams = Animal BeingReality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)Dreams - Humor = FanaticismDreams + Humor = FantasyReality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
— Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living
It is always the little things that build up. Often there is no dramatic reason for discontent in marriages. It seeps in slowly over the years. You don't even notice it creeping in. It happens, trickle by trickle. You do not realise when or how the easy familiarity gets replaced by a 'taken-for-granted' attitude over the years. By the time you do, it is often late. Habits have been formed, patterns have been set. And a comfort-zone have been established. A zone that is hard to get out of.
— Preeti Shenoy, The Secret Wish List
There are three conditions which often look alikeYet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachmentFrom self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows.You see? Size defeats us. For the fish, the lake in which he lives is the universe. What does the fish think when he is jerked up by the mouth through the silver limits of existence and into a new universe where the air drowns him and the light is blue madness? Where huge bipeds with no gills stuff it into a suffocating box and cover it with wet weeds to die?Or one might take the tip of the pencil and magnify it. One reaches the point where a stunning realization strikes home: The pencil tip is not solid; it is composed of atoms which whirl and revolve like a trillion demon planets. What seems solid to us is actually only a loose net held together by gravity. Viewed at their actual size, the distances between these atoms might become league, gulfs, aeons. The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons. One may step down further to subatomic particles. And then to what? Tachyons? Nothing? Of course not. Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through the shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols/The Anti-Christ
Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.
— Minton Sparks
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
You're too young to decide to live forever.
— Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
— José Ortega y Gasset, Meditations on Quixote
Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.
— B.R. Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Let animals live like animals
—  let humans live like humans. That's my whole philosophy in a sentence.
perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people
— Ben Thompson
One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.
— Angela Lam (Turpin)
Those masks we wear not to shield others
—  but ourselves from who we are.
As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundlessAnd look at the formless,They are not constrained by societyAnd not bound to its customs.- Lao-tzu
— Lao Tzu
It is more necessary for the soul to be cured than the body
—  for it is better to die than to live badly.
After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.
— Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.
— Marianne Curley, The Key
The conundrum of sanity and insanity, is that it serves us to be some of each. It's really only a question of degrees. You cannot possibly be 100% adjusted and live in this INSANE world. A little bit of crazy is a coping skill.
— Kelli Jae Baeli, Too Much World
Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.
— Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key
Duty were our games.
— William Wordsworth, The Prelude
I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl
— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
— Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
— Friedrich Schiller
Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection.
— Katina Ferguson
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
— Thomas Aquinas
Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.
— Christopher Krovatin, Heavy Metal And You
It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.
— J.K. Miller II, Reborn
One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda
— Eva Ibbotson, The Morning Gift
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. I am not as strong as I might be, but I have long known and practiced patience. And if my descendants wish to be as I am, they must study patience.
— Tokugawa Iehiro
He who hesitates is lost.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.
— John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
— Mark Twain
You can't do that, it makes too much sense.
— Daven Anderson
In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that surveys the universe is the universe's own eye.
— Jostein Gaarder, Maya
LOOK AT MY BLOOD FLOWERS, BECAUSE I WRITE WITH A SERENE SHARP BLADE THAT SOOTHES. AS MUCH AS CUTS INTO THE DEEPEST PARTS OF MY SOUL.
— Basith, Autopsy of the seasons
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
— Henry Miller
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.
— Daniel Kehlmann
...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life...
— Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you,be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.
— G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
It's always better to be kind than right.
— Ricardo Chévere
Don't make me come down there. - God
— Keith Caserta, Soul Searching
To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.
— Gary Inbinder
Life is a dream from which there is but one awakening.
— Jack Sanger, Azimuth: The Second Journey
Westereners often think that the East is one vast Buddhist temple, which is rather like thinking the West is one vast Carthusian monastery. If the [Western people who like Buddhism] were to visit the East, he'd certainly experience many new things, but he'd find first, that the food is under lock and key and second, that humans are considered to be a miserable, destructive, greedy lot, just as they are in the West.
— Daniel Quinn
Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice.Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation
— Sonia Rumzi
The world is like a giant Alcoholic whining day to day about what others are doing. Instead of of living harmoniously and individually for Good Orderly Direction. If we have faith in our God, than why should we care how others are living their lives?
— B.L. Kennison
From the managerial perspective, Sir Oliver Humperdink, a heinous sort for most of his career, said the release of pentup emotions might even have been healthy for mind and soul. "As heels, we were able to be as annoying and politically incorrect’ as possible.We were able to say and do what everyone probably wanted to say and do, but, for one reason or another, could never, ever get away with. And, by being able to do so, I generally found that my fellow heels were much more 'easygoing' than our babyface counterparts who had to 'toe the line.
— Greg Oliver, The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels
Why don’t we just say it already?” He smirked. “I mean come on now.”I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. “What is it you think we want to say?”“That we love each other. I kick myself every time I stopped myself from saying it. And I know you love me and that’s all that matters,” he said, pulling me close instead of away this time. We stared at the water in a shared silence.My mind wished I could say the same thing, but knowing if I wanted to was the problem. Did I even know how?
— Holly Hood, Heart of Gypsies
At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
And what is written well and what is written badly...need we ask Lysias or any other poet or orator who ever wrote or will write either a political or other work, in meter or out of meter, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?" What is good, PhÊdrus, and what is not good...need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
To learn the way of the Buddha is to learn about oneself. To learn about oneself is to forget oneself. To forget oneself is to be enlightened by everythingin the world. To be enlightened by everything in the world is to let fall one's own body and mind.
— Dogen (1200-1253)
It is often only when we have the occasion to taste, once again, that which we have lost, that the floodgates open and we are undefendably, confronted with the full experience of the loss."From The Island of Serenity, Book 1, Survival, new edition
— Gary Edward Gedall, Survival
Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, "How unlucky that this should happen to me!" Not at all! Say instead, "How lucky that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
— Austin O'Malley
Look at this leaf. When you’re standing close to it you can see every single detail of the leaf. You may think that it’s important to see things, like this leaf, up close but that is an incorrect notion because it is also important to view things from afar. That’s why it is necessary to look at all perspectives of an issue or of an object. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)
— Melissa Rose Lawrence, The Autumnal Winds
All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of their mind. Nature intended for human beings to live in an enthusiastic and curious manner, always exploring, striving, and creating.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Jam jamming,” Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. “I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at. Where does a sound end? Has the Earth been pumping billions upon billions of horrendous noises into the depths of space since the time primates began walking? Can you imagine all the noisy concerts, explosions of war, and thundering of bombs, all drifting endlessly into empty darkness? Can you imagine? For infinity? Frozen glaciers, devoid rocks, suddenly illuminated to be crushed by all that deafening din, waking the inhabitants of other planets. Jamming alien satellite signals. If there is life out there, it wants to destroy us....I must be really stoned to see this so clearly
— Jaime Allison Parker, Justice of the Fox
so when asked Who was Prophet's grandson Hussain?I replied :Imbibe in the name of Hussainwith his name comes the blissthough his spring lost in deserts of Iraqhis treasury has yet vacant thresholdraise your hands and ask your wishesin the name of his Baby Dollin her name is Love for Dejectedgenerosity of Hussain extends beyondeven a handful of dust from his gravebeseech to it in the name of Infant AsgharI love to call it Khaak e Shifaheals the incurable wounds of heart.
— Mirza Sharafat Hussain Beigh
I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be ever regretting past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant . It's like farming. You can have extensive farming and intensive farming; well, I am going to have intensive living after this. I'm going to joy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live, they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not. I've decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of happiness.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It make them kind and sympathetic and understanding. It ought to be cultivated in children.
— Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
Continuously feeling superior is a characteristic of immaturity.
— Eraldo Banovac
There wouldn't be life without colour.
— Anthony T. Hincks
An effort disbursed to become like a god takes us closer towards finding him.
— Deepak Vidyarthi, The Newtonian Quest : How It All Began
Don’t worry. You’re lost. The best of us are, but you will find your way. The universe is everything, all that is tangible and all that is not. Sometimes it’s easy to get lost in the scheme of things. The world is wondrous and mysterious, but he will reveal himself to you when he is ready.” He paused. “We are all connected, but we don’t realize how. You, me… We’re all connected… somehow. Sooner or later it will all be revealed to us.
— Maria La Serra
Being a Falconer is about saving the buggers even if they don't deserve it." - Farlan MacNeil
— Edwin McRae, The Falconers: Fort Eden
Curiosity is crucial for innovation. We are all born curious, but only a small number of people remain curious for a lifetime.
— Eraldo Banovac
Socrates asked the key question: why should we be moral?
— Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
In the morning, people have a plan for that day. Hardworking people think of what they will do during the day, and idle people on what they should do.
— Eraldo Banovac
The key to successful social behaviour: be approachable and understand the needs of others.
— Eraldo Banovac
The black hole of the galaxy swallows the boiling energy of human fury. Soon my waning fume will be obscured forevermore, all insignia of my ionized essence tucked into the anonymous pleat of the universe’s billowing skirt. Until the coarse earth’s rank mustiness calls for me, can I take comfort living purposefully in the rhythms of an ordinarily life? Can I unabashedly absorb the scintillating jewels in the daily milieu? Can I savor an array of pleasantries with my tongue, ears, nose, eyes, lips, and fingertips? Can I take solace in the tenderness of the nights by singing out songs of love and heartache? Can I devote the dazzle of daylight and the vastness of the night’s starriness to investigate life, make a concerted effort to reduce imbedded ignorance, and penetrate layers of obdurate obliviousness? Can I conduct a rigorous search for wisdom irrespective of wherever this journey takes me? Can I make use of the burly pack of prior personal experiences to increase self-awareness? Can I aspire to go forward in good spirits and cheerfully accept all challenges as they come? Can I skim along the delicate surface of life with a light heart until greeting an endless sleep with a begrudging grin in the coolness of the ebbing light?
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Love is to love, be loved, and lost.Never to be enclosed in mortal hands.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
A sound state of mind cannot live with an unsound state of mind.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Sages thought and taught,But men do what they want;Love, wisdom and tolerance won’t work at them,For they are great beasts of all.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Love is greater than the oceans with full of passions.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Oh yes. I am right until I’m proved wrong.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Death is her name,Who walks in her garden of fame,And plucks flowers for her lock,Which has the power to ride a flock.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
Young men learn the lesson of love, after bursting out in anger.
— Vinod Varghese Antony
There’s no reason to cry over spilled milk. People cannot change the things that have already happened.
— Eraldo Banovac
Each moment only once
— Japanese Proverb
The strictest judges are ignorant people.
— Eraldo Banovac
Some things unfold with time
— Moonish Sood
Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.
— Eraldo Banovac
Time runs independently of us, and we cannot comprehend the flow of time. Time is a category in itself.
— Eraldo Banovac
Sometimes, to avoid obstacles, you must also avoid appellation.
— Andy Harglesis
Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.
— Herman Melville, The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles: By Herman Melville - Illustrated
...flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home.
— Herman Melville, The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles: By Herman Melville - Illustrated
As life goes on, images fade.
— Farid F. Ibrahim
Don´t pay the price for your past, let your awesome future do this.
— Alin Sav
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Time is an excuse to delay.
— Amitav Chowdhury
My life is my message to the world
— Ghandi
Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late to learn.
— Eraldo Banovac
Blessed is the heart that does not collect resentments and often dwells on them.
— Swami Ranganathananda
A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
— Eraldo Banovac
Single hand for help is better than thousands hands of prayer.
— Abhishek jadaun
A choice is an act of god, malevolent or loving is your will, free until conflicting with others who share this power, a true collision of good and evil.
— K.R. Royal
Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit
— Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
How do you know you're not dreaming? Or not dead?
— Neo Shamon
A person shattered by their loss in faith must come to terms with the underlying fear and tension of his or her austere solitude and knowingly accept that the universe is utterly indifferent to a person’s survival. Establishment of an ethical code – a philosophical stance – that enables a person to accept the absurdity of living in a world indifferent to them is the ultimate challenge.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Your say is not yours unless you say it
— Satyajeet Mujgule
Before fighting for truth, find the truth.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
— Plato, The Symposium
Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
— Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
[T]he greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing. Music is a delight because of its rhythm and flow. Yet the moment you arrest the flow and prolong a chord or note beyond its time, the rhythm is destroyed. Because life is a flowing process, change and death are its necessary parts. To work for their exclusion is to work against life.
— Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
He who is desireless, self-reliant, independent and free of bonds functions like a dead leaf blown about by the wind of causality .
— Ashtavakra Gita
It struck him that the true characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
— George Orwell, 1984
life is short,before one can catch up with this ,time would ring the bell-hey-day is off
— litymunshi
The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha
— Milarepa, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
Life is simple. Life is complicated.
— Mommy Moo Moo
Generate an idea which you can follow, not what people would interpret.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.
— Ashtavakra Gita
While a man of pure intelligence may achieve thegoal by the most casual of instruction, another may seek knowledge all his life and still remain bewildered.
— Ashtavakra Gita
Desire and anger are objects of the mind, but the mind is not yours, nor ever has been. You are choiceless, awareness itself and unchanging - so live happily.
— Ashtavakra Gita
You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.
— Ashtavakra Gita
This existence is just imagination. It is nothing in reality, but there is no non-being for natures that know how to distinguish being from non being.
— Ashtavakra Gita
We are all each other's teachers.
— Mommy Moo Moo
The difference between having a job and having a vocation is that a job is some unpleasant work you do in order to make money, with the sole purpose of making money. There are plenty of jobs because there is still a certain amount of dirty work that nobody wants to do, and that therefore they will pay someone to do it. There is essentially less and less of that kind of work because of mechanization. If you do a job with the sole purpose of making money, you are absurd, because if money becomes the goal–and it does if you work that way–you begin increasingly to confuse it with happiness or with pleasure. Yes, one can take a handful of crisp one dollar bills and practically water your mouth over it, but this is a kind of person who is confused like a Pavlov dog, who salivates on the wrong bell.
— Alan W. Watts
The difference between having a job and having a vocation is that a job is some unpleasant work you do in order to make money, with the sole purpose of making money. There are plenty of jobs because there is still a certain amount of dirty work that nobody wants to do, and that therefore they will pay someone to do it. There is essentially less and less of that kind of work because of mechanisation. If you do a job with the sole purpose of making money, you are absurd, because if money becomes the goal–and it does if you work that way–you begin increasingly to confuse it with happiness or with pleasure. Yes, one can take a handful of crisp one dollar bills and practically water your mouth over it, but this is a kind of person who is confused like a Pavlov dog, who salivates on the wrong bell.
— Alan W. Watts
Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature’s wisdom.
— Marcus Aurelius
Whoever believes in getting water feels no thirst.
— Ali bin Abi Thalib a.s.
...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.
— Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
In the stillness of my mind , I surrender to a place I call "my own"....Where everything that I see ,is real ,and every thing that I don't ,doesn't exist!Yet , in that very stillness I find my mind drifting in search of solace and when I open my eyes ,I find myself in the Elysian Fields of my existence !
— BinYamin Gulzar
The self centred disregard for anything living outside of me , is pure solipsism. One may feel the world is pure evil but its " I  " who filters the thought through "my "own un - coping mind, seeking complete annihilation of the world for my own self relief !  
— BinYamin Gulzar
Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I will miss myself in relation to others. The rareness. The exceptional differences. I will miss the gift that comes with hardship and paying the price. I will miss the tragedy of my own life. As I once spoke...emphatically, but I now repeat here, quietly—the pain, the pain is what made it so God damn beautiful. I endured. You can wait a lifetime for thirty seconds, five minutes, or for an hour to come into your life—a brief interval that makes all the suffering purposeful. In such moments of splendor and rapture—even if the rapture be stilled, the private hours and years of reckoning are unloaded, a burden lifted and the spirit feels as it did on the happiest day of its life when it was young and untormented Or rather, unconscious of the torment waiting to be ignited.
— Wheston Chancellor Grove, Who Has Known Heights
Every man must find his own philosophy, his attitude towards life.
— Lin Yutang
Neither right nor wrong. It is all manipulation of thoughts.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.
— Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others
...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have another. But it is possible, for instance, to find comfort, pleasure, and beauty in food, clothing, and shelter. It is possible to find pleasure and beauty and even "recreation" in work. It is possible to have farms that do not waste and poison the natural world.
— Wendell Berry, Citizenship Papers
We need to see better to be better.
— Sara Niles
What does Malcolm have to worry about?" JB would ask them when Malcolm was anxious about something, but he knew: he was worried because to be alive was to worry. Life was scary; it was unknowable. Even Malcolm's money wouldn't immunize him completely. Life would happen to him, and he would have to try to answer it, just like the rest of them. They all--Malcolm with his houses, Willem with his girlfriends, JB with his paints, he with his razors--sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.
— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
I've been through so many things in life, and I have come to deduce one thing above all else: I care for nothing in this world save writing, books, everything else is an obstruction; it will always come second.
— Ndiritu Wahome, The Girl With The Flawless Face
What sort of charge against old age is the nearness of death, when this is shared by youth?Yes, you will say; but a young man expects to live long; an old man cannot expect to do so.Well, the young man is a fool to expect it. For what can be more foolish than to regard the uncertain as certain, the false as true? An old man has nothing even to hope. ' Ah, but it is just there that he is in a better position than the young man, since what the latter only hopes he has obtained:The one wishes to live long; the other has lived long.And yet! what is 'long' in a man's life? For grant the utmost limit: let us expect an age like that of the king of the Tartessi, who reigned eighty years and lived a hundred and twenty.Nothing seems long in which there is any . last' , for when that arrives, then all the past has slipped away -only that remains which you have earned by virtue and righteous actions.Hours indeed, and days and months and years depart, nor does past time ever return, nor can the future be known.Whatever time each is granted for life, with that he is bound to be content.
— A.C. Grayling, The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
A successful life is sharing things with others.It teaches us to take care for others.
— Manoj Kudemelly
What we do with our lives largely depends on the philosophy of life we have subjected our lives to as a way of living life, and which controls, move and directs our lives!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?
— Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button