Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
The best state of mind is balanced by two extremes. But we, driven by brain, try
to embrace one and discard the other. It is this discrimanatory practice that has
brought all our good - bad, sin - virtue into existence.
-Deep Trivedi
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
-Swami Vivekananda
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.