There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
Birth does not lead to greatness; but cultivation of numerous virtues by a man leads him to greatness.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
When you travel towards your objective, be sure to pay attention to the path. The path teaches us the best way to arrive and enriches us while we are travelling along it.
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
That best portion of a man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth