When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.
-Socrates
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To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
-A Spiritual Leader
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.
-Muriel Spark
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
By degrees, little by little, from time to time, a wise person should remove his own impurities as a smith removes the dross from silver.
-Dhammapada
