Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
-Jeffrey Eugenides
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
-Haruki Murakami
If the mind becomes balanced and detached, and comes to dwell in its own true home, imbued with the love of God, then it enjoys the essence of supreme spiritual wisdom; it shall never feel hunger again.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann
You look at it, but it is not to be seen; Its name is Formless. You listen to it, but it is not to be heard; Its name is Soundless. You grasp it, but it is not to be held; Its name is Bodiless. These three elude all scrutiny. And hence they blend and become one.
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-Harry S. Truman