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Maybe in the case of true human, their mind, their soul, their consciousness flows through their bodies like blood, inhabiting every cell of their physical being, and so Aristotle was right, in humans the mind and body are one and cannot be separated, the self is both with the body and perishes with it too. She imagined that union with a thrill. How lucky human beings were if that was the case, she wanted to tell Geronimo who was and was not Ibn Rushd: lucky and doomed. When their hearts pounded with excitement their souls pounded too, when their pulses raced their spirits were aroused, hen their eyes moistened with tears of happiness it was their minds that felt the joy. Their minds touched the people their fingers touched, and when they in turn were touched by others it was as if two consciousnesses were briefly joined. The mind gave the body sensuality, it allowed the body to taste delight and to smell love in their lover's sweet perfume; not only their bodies but their minds, too, made love. And at the end the soul, as mortal as the body, learned the last great lesson of life, which was the body's death.
— Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
She wanted to say, I am made of smoke. My mind is smoke, my thoughts are smoke, I am all smoke and only smoke. This body is a garment I put on, which by my magic art I have made capable of functioning as a human body functions, it's so biologically perfect that it can conceive children and pop them out in threes, fours and fives. Yet I am not of this body and could, if I chose, inhabit another woman, or an antelope, or a gnat. Aristotle was wrong, for I have lived for aeons, and altered by body when I chose, like a garment of which I had grown tired. The mind and the body are two, she wanted to say, but she knew it would disappoint him to be disagreed with, so she held her tongue.
— Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Be gentle with othersFor many hurt though you see it notSome wounds are invisible yet deepKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
— rassool jibraeel snyman
You areBut why?
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal, Unanswered
Guys, close your eyes.Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine she is dating a guy like you. Did you smile? No?Then change.
— chocolate socrates
The past and fool are the most dangerous weapons that poison our mind and heart
— SANGEETHA MANIMARAN
i closed my eyes and i loved you ... dreams are such beautiful things
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Where has Arnold been?’ I said. ‘... the Westwoods get in the papers.’‘Patting the orphans.’‘Getting homes for the homeless.’‘Legs for the legless.’ She was laughing as she said it.‘Blind dogs,’ I said. ‘Dogs for the blind, that is.’‘Patting blind dogs.’ We both laughed and drank. ‘Getting legs for them.’‘Homes for legless, blind orphan dogs.’ Maybe we were both a little drunk, on bourbon or on the past.
— James Ferron Anderson, TERMINAL CITY
Inner peace comes from a clear conscience.
— Eraldo Banovac
Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.
— Sara Pennypacker, Pax
By simplifying our lives, we rediscover our child-like stalk of innocents that reconnects us with the central resin of our innate humanity that knows truth and goodness. To see the world through a lens of youthful rapture is to see life for what it can be and to see for ourselves what we wish to become. In this beam of newly discovered ecstasy for life, we realize the splendor of love, life, and the unbounded beauty of the natural world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I see that you have come to the last stage of human life; you are close upon your hundreth year, or even beyond: come now, hold an audit of your life. Reckon how much of your time has been taken up by a money-lender, how much by a mistress, a patron, a client, quarreling with your wife, punishing your slaves, dashing about the city on your social obligations. Consider also the diseases which we have brought on ourselves, and the time too which has been unused. You will find that you have fewer years than you reckon. Call to mind when you ever had a fixed purpose; how few days have passed as you had planned; when you were ever at your own disposal; when your face wore its natural expression; when your mind was undisturbed; what work you have achieved in such a long life; how many have plundered your life when you were unaware of your losses; how much you have lost through groundless sorrow, foolish joy, greedy desire, the seductions of society; how little of your own was left to you. You will realize that you are dying prematurely.
— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
Every page turnedshould be the page read
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal, Unanswered
What do the words “plant” and “plan” have in common? Yes, correct, it’s the word PLAN.Mind Gardening is a mindful thinking and planning philosophy.
— Stan Jacobs, The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life
You don’t want it, but the destiny oblige it
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
Since capitalism is a system based of the love of money,doesn't that make it the root of all evil?
— Alan VanMeter
To pretend is to know oneself.
— Fernando Pessoa, Always Astonished
I want to say this to every stepmother: take it a little easier, try not to be so insistent, try not to have your desires dominate—and not just with the stepchildren, but with your husband, your family, your friends. The moment you step back from whatever it is that exasperates you, you get an unrestricted view of the situation—and you can take a breath before you move forward.
— Margit Eva Bernard, STEP BACK: A Stepmother's Handbook
The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories.
— Abhijit Naskar
With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions.
— Abhijit Naskar
The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.” ― Plato, Plato's Republic
— Plato
When you are so insignificant your choices don't really matter, the waves you create are like grain of sand landing in the ocean.
— Brandon J. Barnard, Haze
The Lord enjoins us to do good to all without exception, though the greater part, if estimated by their own merit, are most unworthy of it. But Scripture subjoins a most excellent reason, when it tells us that we are not to look to what men in themselves deserve, but to attend to the image of God, which exists in all, and to which we owe all honor and love. But in those who are of the household of faith, the same rule is to be more carefully observed, inasmuch as that image is renewed and restored in them by the Spirit of Christ. Therefore, whoever be the man that is presented to you as needing your assistance, you have no ground for declining to give it to him. Say he is a stranger. The Lord has given him a mark which ought to be familiar to you: for which reason he forbids you to despise your own flesh (Gal. 6:10). Say he is mean and of no consideration. The Lord points him out as one whom he has distinguished by the luster of his own image (Isaiah 58:7). Say that you are bound to him by no ties of duty. The Lord has substituted him as it were into his own place, that in him you may recognize the many great obligations under which the Lord has laid you to himself. Say that he is unworthy of your least exertion on his account; but the image of God, by which he is recommended to you, is worthy of yourself and all your exertions. But if he not only merits no good, but has provoked you by injury and mischief, still this is no good reason why you should not embrace him in love, and visit him with offices of love. He has deserved very differently from me, you will say. But what has the Lord deserved? Whatever injury he has done you, when he enjoins you to forgive him, he certainly means that it should be imputed to himself. In this way only we attain to what is not to say difficult but altogether against nature, to love those that hate us, render good for evil, and blessing for cursing, remembering that we are not to reflect on the wickedness of men, but look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, should by its beauty and dignity allure us to love and embrace them.
— John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.
— Socrates
Some even “peek through” their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!
— Nicos Hadjicostis
Only the shallowest person believes that they can attain true happiness by maximizing their wealth at any cost. In absence of morality, ethics, and a sustainable philosophy to guide us in an ethical search for happiness, we will always perceive life’s random countervailing forces of adversity and unpleasantness as inflicting a great personal injustice upon us. Through application of a deeply embedded personal philosophy, we can push back against the negative implications of a life of suffering. We can use a philosophical stance to gain the perspective needed to say 'yes' to all of life, both its rosy path of ineffable joys and a blackened trail of tears. We must learn to accept life as it truly is and not waste precious time in wistfulness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
What is seen by all on FB becomes what each person also sees in the mirror when he sees himself. The others’ gaze, but also the others’ values, opinions, and judgements become one’s own.
— Nicos Hadjicostis
The transience of humanity frames the tragedy of all people. There are no happy conclusions to life, we all die, and until we die, we will experience both happiness and pain. Acceptance of the tragedy of humankind without remorse is a shattering experience; it enables us to relinquish mawkish misconceptions, destructive obsessions, and crippling attachments. Only by accepting the tragedy of life as an integral part of the incandescent beauty of life, will I understand what it means to rejoice in the indelible bloom of life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person’s life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Despite the personalization of life’s events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.
— Kahlil Gibran, Esprits rebelles
There comes a point in our lives where light bothers us more than darkness , we get used to bad happening around us than good , happiness makes us more anxious than sadness and at that moment , we don't mind our lives going chaotic as everything seems to be in order .
— Rahul Kumar K.
When you find what keeps you smiling, you have found true happiness; When what makes you smile helps others, you have found your purpose in life...
— Adam Benten Dula
Love like a dog.As long as it’s been treated with kindness and respect a dog will love you. A dog doesn’t care about your age, sex, gender identity, orientation, religion, race or socioeconomic bracket. A dog doesn’t care if you’re skinny, have stretch marks or scars. A dog doesn’t care how many people you’ve slept with, what hardships you’ve had to overcome; and if you’re crying a dog will come put its little chin on your chest and love you regardless. A dog doesn’t let these things dictate to whom or how much it extends its heart. A dog just loves.Love like a dog.A dog never tries to play it cool, hard to get or shies away from showing how much it loves. A dog’s composure is never betrayed by its tail because it freely and without hesitation shows how ecstatic it is to see you every time you walk through the door. When a dog is around other dogs it doesn’t pretend that it doesn’t really love tennis balls. A dog loves what it loves and is never embarrassed about showing how it feels.Love like a dog.A dog is loyal to and would fiercely defend those whom it loves. “For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack.” Life is not always easy. At times you will have to be brave. At times you will be hurt. But a dog will never leave you. Stay close. Be faithful. Protect your pack.Love like a dog.That is my advice to you. Love like a dog.
— Oliver Tremble
Every day of our lives, we create a poetical statement of our being – the locus of emotions that we call the soul – by how we think, act, and express opinions and sentiments. Our interlinked verses making transforms and continues to alter the world for present and future generations by reconciling thought with time and matter, and harmonizing people with a physical and social world.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace." Pax, Pennypacker.
— Sara Pennypacker.
A living philosophy entails a conscious act of awareness. Without a living philosophy to guide and support us, we are not living as receptive, thinking, and emotionally responsive human beings; we are merely surviving as people.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection's intimately. The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through.As Above So Below,As Within So Without,The Monad of Experience.
— Kevin John Kull
All philosophic propositions, every attempt to think including all acts of oral or written articulation of an argument and metaphorically expressed ideas, are subject to the dynamics and limitations of human language. The spoken thought is only part of any philosophic message; the other part is unsaid because it is unsayable. The crux of any philosophic proposition reverberates in the echo of silence, the thought that lies in-between the lines.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
The theories we find untrue, are those we cannot accept.
— Jacques S Cantin
Adharmenaidhate tabat, tato bhadrani pashyati, tatah sapatnan jayati, - samulastu vinashyati. In unrightousness they prosper, in it they find their good, through it they defeat their enemies, - but they perish at the root.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Thought Relics
My philosophy of life: “Don’t just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.
— Clifford Cohen
How has he moved so quickly from childlike naïvité to existential panic?
— Michael Grant, Katherine Applegate
Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.
— Patrick deWitt
Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Those who succumb to pain find weakness in emotion and strength in reason.
— Jacques S Cantin
if not try then catch
— Ahmad Moawad
No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Remember that all we have is “on loan” from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever—nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long.
— Seneca
Let tomorrow cross its own rivers.
— William Morris, The Well at the World's End
People who do not eat butterflies will wear their clothes the wrong way, and people who wear their clothes the wrong way are inviting lemmings inside." -- Muzhduk the Ugli the Third
— Alexander Boldizar
...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...
— William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
No matter what you do if it isn't genuine it's not worth doing, if it isn't meant with good heart it's not worth saying, and if it's a darkness around you perhaps it's not worth remembering.
— E.E.D. Horton, Conversations With A Pigeon
Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb
— Mohammed Sekouty
There's only so much room at the top of the heap. The rest of us are fill dirt.
— Sue Grafton
We've become so civilized it is unnatural to be naked.
— Jeffrey Rasley
Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.
— William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat the inconvenience in your life like ill-fitting wandering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again.
— conversations with a pigeon
When the ocean get poisoned even a sip will be deadly
— Mohammed Sekouty
A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world
— rassool jibraeel snyman
To become a pious saint, experience first as as a ruthless killer.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal
Loneliness is an emaciation of the spirit. -Who Has Known Heights: The Mystique Memoirs of a Melancholic Mind
— Wheston Chancellor Grove
All kinds of things are happening to me." I begin. ,,Some I choose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other any more. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance - that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think things over, how much effort I put into it. In fact, the harder I try, the more I lose my sense od who I am. It's as if my identity's an orbit that I've strayed far away from, and that really hurts. But more than that, it scares me. Just thinking about it makes me flinch.Oshima gazes deep into m eyes. "Listen, Kafka. What you are experiencing now is the motif od many Greek tragedies. Man does not chose fate. Fate chooses man. That is the basic world view of Greek drama. And the sense od tragedy - according to Aristotle - somes, ironically enough, not drom the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I am getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. Sophocles' Oedipus Rex being a Great example. Oedipus is drawn into tragedy not because of lazines or stupidity, but because of his courage and honesty. So an inevitable irony results.
— Haruki Murakami
Sometimes it is our mistakes that make us the best among men in the world. if we listen to the voices of the world, they speak not to degrade us but to encourage us to overcome that which we have been ultimately blessed with... for what more could we lose if we never choose to overcome anything? I tell you that you are dead if you are foolish enough to not try.
— Danish Sayanee
Many of us feel alone and assaulted by the meaninglessness of what we are doing. But, at such times, we are doing; the problem is not a lack of activity with a point, but rather questions about the point of the activity.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun, The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals...It is too readily assumed...that the ordinary man only rejects [saintliness] because it is too difficult: in other words, that the average human being is a failed saint. It is doubtful whether this is true. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
— Larissa MacFarquhar, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
Instead of allowing a situation to alter your attitude negatively. Let your positive attitude alter the situation.
— karan godara
Life is about refinement, not perfection. And you still have refining to do.
— Dan Millman, The Journeys of Socrates
Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih, Latest Proverbs
Do a bit research before you plan.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih, The Revealed Sense
Life consists on lightness and darkness, when you reached to lightness, prepare your tools for darkness
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih, The Revealed Sense
Life is like Mother Nature - unpredictable. Friends /relatives who promise to help, will avoid you when you need them. Then, you struggle to get through and suddenly, some stranger walks in offering you the help you needed. The hope, the betrayal and the miracle...all are just part of our life...
— Sandhya Jane
He was a thinker, but also a man of action.
— Dan Millman
The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.
— Andrew J. Robinson, A Stitch in Time
It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.
— Bradley Somer, Fishbowl
Man was not meant for safe harbor.
— Aeschlyus
Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire.
— karan godara
Flowers wither away when put through harsh conditions. Humans, on the other hand, have a choice. A choice to wither away or blossom.
— karan godara
Let lessons learnt be like fingers burned. Gentle reminders imploring us to stay away from fire. It is a mark of folly to make the same mistake twice.
— karan godara
All we must do is take small steps. Steps with the belief that someday, all those small steps will culminate into a giant leap, a fitting finale.
— karan godara
He who knows the 'Why' for his existence is able to bear almost any 'How'.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
-Truly, freeing oneself in one’s own mind is only the first step on a path of freedom.-
— Mark Alberto Yoder Nunez, The Spider Lady and Other Short Stories and Poetry
There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
So many of us hide from ourselves and we don't even know who we are and why were we here? All peoples will prove they are better and put fake masks on their own faces. Every people pretend herself what they actually not from inside. Afraid to show the reality and hide their best quality. You just have to learn to be yourself and what really makes you happy, or other things that are not important and what others think of you is not important at all.
— Silentknight0
If your needs are little, you are rich enough.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
As Garp put it, 'You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.' Even if these so-called endings and beginnings are illusions.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
How big is a man's life?" asked Ultan."I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?""You see it from the beginning, and anticipate much. I, recollecting it from its termination, know how little there has been. I suppose that is why the depraved creatures who devour the bodies of the dead seek more.
— Gene Wolfe
Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Be who your are, do not be what people want you to be
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
The beauty of the past lies in-between the perpetual unhappiness of the future and of those who live it.
— Daniele Mauro
Life itself is a rickety building
— William Golding
The purpose of lifeis to give our life purpose.
— A.J. Beirens
Work a lifetime to pay off a house. you finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.
— Arthur Miller
If you take it step by step, you shall least miss a step!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life is for a specific mission.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Opposition stood in my way, but I persevered against all odds and in the process gained my freedom as well as became a man whose future is like the universe/cosmos...INFINITE
— Pierre Richard Lauture
The sacred soul writes the sacred words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you play with a gentleman, you play like a gentleman. But when you play with bastards, make sure you play like a bigger bastard. Otherwise, you will lose.
— Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.
— Gaurav Parab, Rustom and the Last Storyteller of Almora
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due.May my dead be patient with the way my memories  fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.
— Wisława Szymborska
Release your past into the universe and embrace your future with opened arms.
— Delma Pryce, ABOVE AND BEYOND: My Spiritual Journey
There are two kinds of people in the world. There are eggers and lightkeepers. The former are driven by acquisition and avarice. The latter are driven by curiosity and caution. Eggers take what they can, consequences be damned. Lightkeepers take what they need, nothing more. Eggers want to have. Lightkeepers want to be.
— Abby Geni
The sacred space in time is irreplaceable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There aren't bad ideas but yes bad thoughts
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
Ambition soars and also slithers
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Ambition built n the pain of others has no nobility or substance
— rassool jibraeel snyman
The poor are not allowed to own thoughts, he told his young son.
— Gaurav Parab, Rustom and the Last Storyteller of Almora
Perhaps, I am yet to be written. I am yet to be described in those poetic gestures lovers use to describe their soulmate.
— Dishika Zaman Tasnim
Life is like a school, we are the student of it: Experience is our Teacher.
— Dharmalingam Raju
No ideology is worth a Human life.
— Adriano Bulla
When you see a new day, you must see a new reason to think anew. You must see a new reason to start anew regardless of the woes of yesterday. You must see a reason to understand and appreciate the real gift of life knowing that you have yet another chance to prove your existence on earth worthy or not. You must see a new reason to choose positive thoughts to negative thoughts. You must see the real reason to rejoice, breathe a sigh of purposefulness and be poised to do something unique. You must see! oh yes! you must see a new reason and the urgency to live and leave a distinctive footprint
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There's a “Pleasure"of happinessIn every thing I really wanna doWhen I find true happinessIn every thing I can do - Cocoy McCoy -
— Cocoy McCoy
A fool is someone who wants you to apologise for your intelligence -rassool jibraeel snyman
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Words of wisdom are easier said when shown, otherwise, they are incomprehensible.
— Michael Brett Turner
LIFE IS A JOURNEYLife on earth is a JOURNEY where the only certainty is the final STOP: DEATH.But as we journey on towards DEATH, we can create little STOPS along the way,These STOPS can give us a sense of purpose in life, something to work towards to, something to aim for,But let’s not get hung up with these stops ‘cos not all stops are what we expect them to be,For every stop that meets our expectations, there are many other stops that can be disappointing,Just like running towards the next bus-stop to get away from the rain only to find out that there is no shelter or someone has vandalised the shelter,So instead of getting all fixed up on the stops, focus on the JOURNEY,Enjoy the JOURNEY and stop whenever you feel like stopping to enjoy and savour the moment,And lend a helping hand to someone along the JOURNEY,For the stops and destinations are not as important as the JOURNEY itself.
— YM
As my mind changes, so do my quotes. I empathize with those who, by force, are put on trial for their own clarity of conscience. For that, we must convene by force of argument.
— Michael Brett Turner
Humility and level-headedness are traits, which have accrued upon me over the years, during the rites of my passage through time. They were thrust down my throat by the hands of Destiny and the Almighty, both of who are far greater, far grander, and far more mysterious and mystic, than all that we ordinary mortals can ever humanly conceive or comprehend. - Bhakti Vedanta Anandamurthy Thiruvadiar. ( A Character in the book)
— Biju Vasudevan
Hatred is as much an attachment as desire. Love liberates.
— Chaitanya
The singular truth and purpose of being alive- joy. Indestructible, perpetual joy.
— Dipan Vaishnav
Religions were never meant to be followed but thought for. It turned nasty when was turned into human ego, blasted straight out of furnace of hatred for fellow being.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal, Unanswered
Hmmm.. We are like children in a bus with faulty brakes on a hill, eventually we will meet our collusion point. Well blindly some of us may think of sacking out all the good out of the bus before it meets it's end, but what is really there to sack out. Some places are hard to to get out of.
— Allan Amanyire
If intellect could be acquired from books, nobody would have been more intellectual than a book monger.
— Kunal Narayan Uniyal, Unanswered
that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness
— Devdutt Pattanaik
Don't fear the unknown for it may be the change you're looking for. And, once you've crossed that bridge be prepared to change once again for the only for sure in life is change.
— Michael A. Contés II
The Master, by residing in the Tao,sets an example for all beings.Because he doesn't display himself,people can see his light.Because he has nothing to prove,people can trust his 
— Lao Tzu
Stay focused
—  leave everything and do something
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.
— Palle Oswald
A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.
— Rose
You don't have to be a billionaire to believe you can make a difference. Give your resources to a charity and volunteer in your community.
— Germany Kent
If you're trying to figure out why something's not working,” Old Lou had explained, “just focus on the things that do work. Move through those things first and eventually you'll find the one part that's stuck.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
Alas, between the “shouldn’t” and the “shouldn’t have”—that is precisely where life happens.
— Sorin Suciu, In Memory: A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
the skies frighten you when they fill up with dragons,but you know they’re being chased by dreams!
— Marianthi  Devaki
Everything is within the limit of possibility by the grace of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Drink from the ethereal philosophy of Heaven and you may see life as no more no less than a dream made of pure poetry from divine source. AA
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.
— Albert Camus
Don't you wish it could happen? Your mind wiped clean like a hard drive? Start again without memories?
— Anuradha Roy, Sleeping on Jupiter
I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.
— Gary Inbinder, The Devil in Montmartre: A Mystery in Fin de Siècle Paris
You cannot take what I already know from me. You cannot withhold what I do not know from me because I have no knowledge of that which I do not know. And you cannot prevent me from knowing what I am supposed to know because the universe will find a way to reveal it to me.
— Shantelee R. Brown
Leaving a good mark
— Michael Mcguerty
It is easier to be angry. It is easier to hate. It is easier to knock someone down. Those are surface level emotions. It is much harder to be tolerant, to seek wisdom and understand, to stop and evaluate your response even can be pretty challenging. Hate is born of ignorance. We are so distracted that living with any depth is such an oversight as a society. We must learn to love and to stop and think. All of which spending time in meditation with the word of God gives us. But who has time for that?
— Frances Muenzner Titus
Perfect… is a moment. Not a life. You don’t get to perfect with long conversations and a shitty job and a high school sweet heart. Perfect comes, and it goes. Perfect is a moment. It comes, you make the most of it, and then you let it go.
— J.D. Hawkins
peoples see more those thing which they can't see, and they see less to which they can see properly.
— rishi_328
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
— Clive James
Nature loves to hide.
— Heraclitus
There must be no final truths
—  only burning questions.
So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
— Epicurus
The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
— Aristotle
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
— Aristotle
You cannot step into the same river twice
— Heraclitus of Ephesus
An experimental analysis shifts the determination of behaviour from autonomous man to the environment - an environment responsible both for the evolution of the species and for the repertoire acquired by each member. Early versions of environmentalism were inadequate because they could not explain how the environment worked, and much seemed to be left for autonomous man to do. But environmental contingencies now take over functions once attributed to autonomous man, and certain questions arise. Is man then 'abolished'? Certainly not as a species or as an individual achiever. It is the autonomous inner man who is abolished, and that is a step forward. But does man not then become merely a victim or passive observer of what is happening to him? He is indeed controlled by his environment, but we must remember that it is an environment largely of his own making. The evolution of a culture is a gigantic exercise in self-control. It is often said that a scientific view of man leads to wounded vanity, a sense of hopelessness, and nostalgia. But no theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. And a new theory may change what can be done with its subject matter. A scientific view of man offers exciting possibilities. We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
— Skinner, B. F.
One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.
— Peter Høeg
So seek beauty, Miss Prim. Seek it in silence, in tranquillity; seek it in the middle of the night and at dawn. Pause to close doors while you seek it, and don't be surprised if it doesn't reside in museums or in palaces. Don't be surprised if, in the end, you find beauty to be not in Something but Someone.
— Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera, The Awakening of Miss Prim
When we try to slow things down, it tries to run ahead of us. When we try to fast forward it, it holds us back. Einstein was probably right about it, time IS elastic. One pull at it and it will snap back onto you.
— Saptarshi Majumder
The ideal is the enemy of the real.
— Susan Block, The Bonobo Way
A good lecturer is shaped from a good researcher with good philosophy, but not vice verse.
— Lecturing is a type of art.
Mockers = Crown Polishers
— Steven Chopade
Bitterness is a choice, not an option.
— Steven Chopade
Do little but be consistent.
— Steven Chopade
All mountain people are like that. No matter where you go, the mountains call you back.
— Karan Bajaj, The Seeker
The world is what you make of it, friend. If it doesn't fit, you make alterations.
— Lawrence Kasdan, Silverado: The Screenplay
There's a problem with continually stamping down on the least sensible instincts that drive men to recklessly endanger themselves. Even the most reasonable and level-headed of us have only limited space to store such unwanted emotion. You keep putting the stuff away, shoving it to the back of your mind but like an over-full cupboard there comes a point where you try to cram one more thing into it and all of a sudden something snaps, the catch gives, the door bursts open and everything inside spills out on top of you.
— Mark Lawrence, The Liar's Key
After all, the whole of humanity was anchored by inventions, contrivances, unrealities. Xiao Li lived on dreams, as most people do.
— Victor Robert Lee, Performance Anomalies
Great sex and awesome food is what conquered the beast, not beauty. The key to happiness is to fuck like a porn star and cook like a five star chef.
— Travis Luedke
Make love an another human compulsion and you will fortify its limitation. Acquire it like knowledge and you will understand everything
— Ashutosh Gupta
I did not know of any single soul who succeed in life without a mentorship.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry.
— Mark Lawrence
Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS
— Gauthama Buddha
You can cross the Rubicon in a boat without getting wet, but surely, getting wet is the baptism before you begin that new life on the other side.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…is himself.
— Ivy Yuelle
Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…was himself.
— Ivy Yuelle
Idolization of oneself is a crime. One is the prisoner of his once blindfolded complacency.
— Flonja Akshija
This was where war happened, in someone’s backyard. Sometimes it was yours. Often, it was someone’s a world away. But it did happen. In this moment. In the next breath. Every day.Every day, someone lived in the midst of destruction and chaos. Every day, someone’s flower boxes filled with gunpowder’s haze, a child’s laughter turned to tears. There had been a day when someone watered those flowers in the evening’s peaceful quiet and the children caught fireflies in mason jars. And that day will come again, when the crickets and the bullets no longer have to compete for the night’s stage. But for now, all anyone could do was fight on the crickets’ behalf.
— Kelseyleigh Reber
Sometimes your own tongue can make you deaf and dumb.
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
We live in a global village, Neel, where billions of voices babble simultaneously, and in this village a new hierarchy is being established, a new caste-system is being created. Only this time, it is money that sets the tone. Whoever has the most money buys the biggest loudspeaker and is the neo-Brahmin of this new world order. If the ninety-year-old neo-Brahmin on the other side of the earth is terrified of antibiotic resistant flesh-eating bacteria, we must think twice before offering treatment to a twenty-four-year old here. These are the new rules of our global village.
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
The sins of men aren't confined to them. They travel like ripples over water, over many generations till someone gets revenge or finds forgiveness. You and I, we are all paying for our father's sins, aren't we?
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
So I have an Indian heart if I do something illegal?'"No, you have an Indian heart if you understand the limitations of our resources and are willing to step out of the man-made boundaries of the law to help someone.
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
The prison that exists in a man's mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside...
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
There is so much beauty in the world that I wonder how we get around to marshalling so much hatred within ourselves. I hope, one day, you will feel the same way seeing this sight of the heavens that I see, that mu forefathers and their forefathers have seen since time began, and think of me, and marvel that in this beauty time stands still for us all, making us all immortal on the lips of those we leave behind.Just remember me kindly, my son.
— Anirban Bose, The Death of Mitali Dotto
the problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
— rassool jibraeel snyman
You have to be grateful for the small things, when any minute might be your last.
— Joe Abercrombie
Try & try until you cannot succeed.
— Kishan P Rao
To be human, is to be able to love the unlovable, and hope when things appear hopeless
— Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
If your holy book makes you hate, you're reading the wrong shit, mate.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets
— rassool jibraeel snyman
You meet somebody at the seashore on a vacation and have a wonderful time together. Or in a corner at a party, while the glasses clink and somebody beats on a piano, you talk with a stranger whose mind seems to whet and sharpen your own and with whom a wonderful new vista of ideas is spied. Or you share some intense or painful experience with somebody, and discover a deep communion. Then afterward you are sure that when you meet again, the gay companion will give you the old gaiety, the brilliant stranger will stir your mind from its torpor, the sympathetic friend will solace you with the old communion of spirit. But something happens, or almost always happens, to the gaiety, the brilliance, the communion. You remember the individual words from the old language you spoke together , but you have forgotten the grammar. You remember the steps of the dance, but the music isn’t playing any more. So there you are.
— Robert Penn Warren
Possibility is miraculous.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We think of our species as swinging on the pinnacle of evolution, but this definitely isn’t the final design. If our bodies don’t evolve much further, our minds will. It’s the only way our species can save itself. An evolution of human consciousness is only a matter of time. And that’s when we will finally discover the good life, hand in hand. Meanwhile we just have to tough it out and make the most of things.
— Rupert Dreyfus, Spark
Everything is going to be right at the end. If it's not right, then it is not the end.
— Ashwin Sanghi, Chanakya's Chant
Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life.
— Jay Woodman
One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.
— Jenna Lindsey, The Dragon's Breath
Robbers*sometimes your words rob you of your thoughtsand leave you destituteand sadwill they weep for you i wonder_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin
— rassool jibraeel snyman
In order to fulfill our wants we get busy to make our living comfortable and we forget about our needs, and we make our life uncomfortable. So, add " life " in our living.
— Dev Samudre
Control your desires as if your life depended on them, then your life will do.
— Nityananda Das, Divine Union
The past and the future are complicated. It's the present that's simple.
— David Levithan, Every Day
Living beings wide and far are creatively enticed into the idea of living only on the substance of leafy greenery by alluring allegations that seem to make apparent sense. Some want to avoid the dying aspect of life and prolong the bodily functions of their organs within their potential corpses over time and reduce the waste products given off by our walking structures to lessen worldly contamination. Others want to avoid consuming Earth’s usual containing features from being overly exhumed, or because we have never not lovingly smothered Earth’s natural oxygen sucking creatures, and so we do not consume the things that are taking nutrients from us so that we can preserve them instead, because we find it morally dissatisfying.
— Ella Cooper
Vengeance is waste of time
— Amish Tripathi, The Oath of the Vayuputras
You know that if I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
— William Faulkner
Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.
— R.D. Ronald
without the act of imagination humanity would have perished long back
— Thiruman Archunan
If u know, Chess is the game that teach u about defense not strike.Enjoy ur tempo and win the game!
— Maylanie Citra Liem
sometimes we don't need to think to beleive
— Zakaria ABALI
Who knows why our kids do what they do? All we can do is just love them." - Fenella
— Cindy Vine, C U @ 8
Man to woman
—  man to man in letter words will stand the philosophy of coming in along by the bay of hay made so sublime be that it outlasts the coming time.
A person cannot tell the truth, if they don't live the truth & they can't live the truth, if they don't know the truth_ ♥ Cutting Truths
— Michael Levy
Life is like Alice's White Rabbit. He runs away and does not grab anything, but this is not important: what matters is to keep on pursuing him.
— Gabriele Corno
Things just are the way they are... However, NOWHERE in ANY law, dogma, or rules is it mandated -be it sanctioned, decreed, or wrought by divine imposition- that ANY OF IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY!
— Rythmic Karma
The Art of LivingIs in the Joy of GivingWith Love in your Heart
— arthurite
Do & Give your 100% Always results will be 100%
— Dinesh Kumar Kashnia
The Beauty that comes from within is the most Beautiful of all
— Anne Reese
if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Intelligence is worthless without common sense.
— LM Fields
The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.
— Orhan Pamuk
We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives.
— Carla H. Krueger, The Social Worker
The existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Socrates insisted that there's a strong connection between your philosophy (how you interpret the world, what you think is important in life) and your mental and physical health. Different beliefs lead to different emotional states...
— Jules Evans, Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations