Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
The person who indulges in self-torturing thoughts like fasting or uprooting his
own hair is bound to perform acts that will cause pain to others. Now you say,
how can such a person who inflicts pain on others ever be happy?
-Deep Trivedi
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. All separation ceases.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime.
-Jeb Dickerson
For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it’s okay to remain a radical atheist – it’s absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart – then no problem.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
-Barbra Streisand
