Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and indifference towards the wicked.
No teaching, no society nor any of the so-called religion explains to us the
importance of qualities like simplicity, innocence, selflessness or compassion.
Whereas the truth is, all the best creations, inventions and arts have stemmed
from the "consciousness" of people with these qualities.
-Deep Trivedi
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
-E. M. Forster
Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awareness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.
-Eugène Carrière
If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.