Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
-Homer
The mind exists in a state of “not enough” and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and restless very easily. Boredom means the mind is hungry for more stimulus…it is not satisfied.
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
-Fernando Pessoa
In youth, the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days are long.
-Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
-Voltaire