I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
-Pietro Aretino
I am a human and I will only live a life which does credit to humans. I have been blessed with beautiful human form, a sharp intellect and a sensitive heart. How do I activate these gifts? Blessed with a priceless life, why should I not fit it with compassion for all beings?
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realisation.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
-Joan Didion
The mode of living which is founded upon a total harmlessness towards all life forms or (in case of actual necessity) upon a minimum of such harm is the highest morality.
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