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  • #1
    William Nicholson
    “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
    William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

  • #2
    Sengcan
    “One thing, all things: move among and intermingle, without distinction. To live in this realization is to be without anxiety about non-perfection. To live in this faith is the road to non-duality, because the non-dual is one with the trusting mind.”
    Sengstan, Hsin Hsin Ming

  • #3
    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #4
    Alan W. Watts
    “What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
    Alan Wilson Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

  • #5
    Sivananda Saraswati
    “Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”
    Sivananda

  • #6
    Thomas Merton
    “But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”
    Thomas Merton

  • #7
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    Leonardo da Vinci

  • #8
    Hermann Hesse
    “I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #9
    John Morley
    “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
    John Morley, On Compromise

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Albert Camus
    “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
    Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
    Walk beside me… just be my friend”
    Albert Camus

  • #12
    Sengcan
    “When mind exists undisturbed in the Way, nothing in the world can offend, and when a thing can no longer offend it ceases to exist in the old way. When no discriminating thoughts arise, the old mind ceases to exist.”
    Sengstan, Hsin Hsin Ming

  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #14
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #16
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
    Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

  • #17
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #18
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

  • #19
    Oliver Goldsmith
    “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
    Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

  • #23
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

  • #24
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

  • #25
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

  • #26
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
    Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • #27
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #28
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “The small wisdom is like water in a glass:
    clear, transparent, pure.
    The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:
    dark, mysterious, impenetrable.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #29
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument
    while the song I came to sing remains unsung.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #30
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.”
    Rabindranath Tagore



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