The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
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For me, meditation re-orders the natural flow of life. Everybody has a flow or stream of consciousness that allows all things to move without resistance. Decisions come easily, things fall into place, and there’s no conflict.
-Oprah Winfrey
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
-Cato The Elder
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. ...Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.
-Ramana Maharshi
Anyone that is fallen into the grip of lust, wrath, or attachment…by contemplation of the Supreme Being, with a moment’s remembrance of God shall he be saved.
-Scriptures
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
-George Washington Carver
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
