Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
-Franklin P. Jones
Speak not harshly to anyone. Those thus addressed will retort. Painful, indeed, is vindictive speech. Blows in exchange may bruise you.
It is not that America has the most talented people. Majority of them are the ones
who have migrated from other countries and have accepted the US citizenship.
While among the rest, there are many who have been promoted well.
-Deep Trivedi
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.
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
-Francis Bacon