There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
Be determined. The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses, and unrestrained in his food, like the wind overcomes a rotten tree.
Under the influence of false ego one thinks himself to be the doer of activities, while in reality all activities are carried out by nature as a natural process.
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
Mankind is a great, immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.