Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
-Bodhidharma
Don’t hate life and death or love life and death. Keep your every thought free of delusion, and in life you’ll witness the beginning of nirvana, and in death you’ll experience the assurance of no rebirth.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
-Mark Twain
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-Paulo Coelho
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession.
-Thomas Hardy