After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
The childishness of a human being is; on one hand, he is competing to take
credit for success, on the other hand, he is always seeking out an opportunity to
blame someone else for his failure. Consequently, he is never able to analyze
any event accurately.
-Deep Trivedi
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
O soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution, experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfilment.
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot