- “Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates–hence the deadly frost–the free power of the mind–the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more–the person is alone, like a baleful power–as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually–and in accordance with his own principle he is–misanthropic and misotheos.” ― Novalis, Philosophical Writings
- “Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy” ― Ludwig van Beethoven
- “Courage, compassion, and kindness can win any battle in life.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “If your treated like a puppet find a new ball of string” ― Benny Bellamacina, Piddly Poems for Children
- “What is the meaning of life? To live.” ― John Casey
- “A goal without a plan is a dream. A goal without a backup plan is a wager.” ― John Casey
- “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent
- “Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” ― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
- “They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.” ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- “The time of a man’s life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption. His soul is restless, fortune uncertain, and fame doubtful; to be brief, as a stream so are all things belonging to the body; as a dream, or as a smoke, so are all that belong unto the soul. Our life is a warfare, and a mere pilgrimage. Fame after life is no better than oblivion. What is it then that will adhere and follow? Only one thing, philosophy. And philosophy doth consist in this, for a man to preserve that spirit which is within him, from all manner of contumelies and injuries, and above all pains or pleasures; never to do anything either rashly, or feignedly, or hypocritically: only to depend from himself, and his own proper actions: all things that happen unto him to embrace contentendly, as coming from Him from whom he himself also came; and above all things, with all meekness and a calm cheerfulness, to expect death, as being nothing else but the resolution of those elements, of which every creature is composed. And if the elements themselves suffer nothing by their perpetual conversion of one into another, that dissolution, and alteration, which is so common unto all, why should it be feared by any? Is not this according to nature? But nothing that is according to nature can be evil.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- “By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- “How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” ― Plato, The Allegory of the Cave
- “The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.” ― Fulton J. Sheen
- “Recharging and rebuilding is a part of life.” ― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.” ― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
- “I find it all too easy to overlook the good things. I suppose this is common, but I don’t wish to be common.” ― John Casey, Raw Thoughts
- “We long for a more-than-merely-human condition; a form of immortality and boundlessness that would allow us to observe the drama of our ephemeral lives from ‘above,’ as opposed to being engulfed and drowned by it.” ― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief
- “To those who are crawling under the weight of their ego, an egoless person appears small because he flies high in the sky of freedom.” ― Shunya
- “Intelligence and the need to follow are inversely proportional; the more intelligence the less is the need.” ― Omar Cherif
- “I have forgotten my umbrella. ” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Every new day is an opportunity to grow your love.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.” ― Noah Levine, Dharma Punx: A Memoir
- “But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.” ― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything
- “War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life’s joy. One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life but as an aspect of life.” ― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
- “Пустинните бурени оцеляват, а пролетното цвете разцъфва и повяхва.” ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- “Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.” ― Arthur Miller, The Crucible
- “The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”.” ― Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
- “A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.” ― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World
- “All explanations are myths whose truth-value we assign subjectively. They are true only insofar as we say that they are true. They are stories we conjure up and tell ourselves in order to make sense of the disconnected, context-free phantasmagoria of present perception.” ― Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth and Belief