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Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
- Paulo Coelho
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
- Antonio Porchia
There’s nothing more painful than remembering something happy while you are distressed.
- Dante Alighieri
As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
- Akhenaton
Life is our teacher. Life communicates with us all the time and it is a lesson to see how life continuously has led me to the people I need to meet, to the situations I need to experience, and to the places I need to be.
- Swami Dhyan Giten
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