Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberation for human beings. The mind attached to sense objects leads to bondage and that which is free of sense objects sets one free.
It’s better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
-Elizabeth Gilbert
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies and maintain us in everlasting concord…
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