The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
-Aristotle
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There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
-Ben Stein
Why don't you simply understand that events are happening outside and your life
is within you. Then whatever happens outside, why should your life be affected
by it ? It does, because you forcibly perceive yourself being attached to it.
-Deep Trivedi
Marriage is more about work than about divine luck, more about finding someone to love than about finding someone to meet your own laundry list of personal needs.
-Mark Gorman
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
-Mahatma Gandhi
The sun, symbolising wisdom, divine knowledge and spiritual light, which receded from you when you revelled in the darkness of ignorance, delusion and sensuality, now joyously turns on its northward course and moves towards you to shed its light and warmth in greater abundance, and to infuse into you more life and energy.
-Swami Sivananda
Those who think religion is about belief don’t understand religion, and don’t understand belief.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
