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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- W. H. Auden
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
- John Lennon
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
- Marty Rubin
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anaïs Nin
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe. “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”
- Stephen Crane
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
- A Spiritual Leader
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