Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Those who are ignorant of the supreme purpose of life will never be able to attain nirvana (liberation) in spite of their observance of the vratas (vows) and niyamas (rules) of religious conduct and practice of shila (celibacy) and tapas (penance).
-Scriptures
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable must be the truth.
-Arthur Conan Doyle
I do not see what use a man can be put to, whose word cannot be trusted. How can a wagon be made to go if it has no yoke-bar, or a carriage if it has no collar-bar?
-Confucius
Earth teaches me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teaches me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall… Earth teaches me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
-William Alexander
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
