- this too shall pass.
- but if something did happen, it happened. whether it’s right or wrong, i accept everything that happens, and that’s how i became the person i am now.
- we must treat others as we wish others to treat us.
- lorsqu’on emploie trop de temps à voyager, on devient enfin étranger en son pays.
- if you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. your mind is your predicament. it wants to be free of change. free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. but change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality
- nobody’s going to save you. no one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. no one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. there is no one who will feed the yearning. face it. you will have to do, do it yourself.
- i think the reason why so many people are unhappy is because they are waiting for a time when everything is perfect. they are waiting for a day when they wake up and everything clicks, where nothing is going wrong. that day wont ever come. there will always be suffering, things will always be going wrong. that isn’t a reason to be upset. you don’t wait for all the suffering to be gone, you find happiness through the suffering.
- it is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings.
- one repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
- la seul veritable voyage n’est pas d’aller vers d’aurtres paysages, mais d’avoir d’autres yeux.
- je reponds ordinairement à ceux qui me demandent raison de mes voyages: que je sais bien ce que je fuis, mais non pas ce que je cherche.
oct 24 2011 ∞
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