Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
-William Ruckelshaus
If you have known yourself, you have known everything else. Know that, by knowing which, you will know everything else. The Bible says, “Seek that kingdom within you.” Once you have found that, then everything else will be automatically added unto you; you don’t have to go looking for things outside; they will all come to you.
Tampering with nature and natural substances always costs us dear. We are
also bearing the consequences of tampering with our nature only.
-Deep Trivedi
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
Without faith there is no knowledge, without knowledge there is no virtuous conduct, without virtues there is no deliverance, and without deliverance there is no perfection.