He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
-Plato
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
-Karl Marx
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
-Gabriel García Márquez
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organised; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
The way you laugh at others when you see them suffer for their mistakes, why
don't you laugh at yourself also when you are paying for your foolishness? If you
learn this, all your miseries will immediately be 'dispelled'.
-Deep Trivedi
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion