As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent van Gogh
No individual is lost and no nation is refused prosperity and success if foundations of their thoughts and actions rest upon piety and godliness, and upon truth and justice.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
-Nicholas Sparks
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
-Søren Kierkegaard