Life is as dear to the mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
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I always feel that I have two duties to perform with a parting guest: one, to see that he doesn't forget anything that is his; the other, to see that he doesn't take anything that is mine.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
-Paulo Coelho
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
-Epicurus
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
-John Fowles
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-Patricia Sampson
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
-Albert Einstein
