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“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
― Émile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don’t let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs.”
― Rachel Brathen

“When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.”
― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

“Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
― Paul Rand

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“This world is but canvas to our imaginations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

“Deniz kıyısında bir ihtiyar taşçı kayayı yontmaktadır. Güneş onu yakıp kavurur. O da Tanrıya yakarır keşke güneş olsaydım diye.
"Ol" der Tanrı. Güneş oluverir. Fakat bulutlar gelir örter güneşi, hükmü kalmaz.
Bulut olmak ister. "Ol" der Tanrı. Bulut olur. Rüzgar alır götürür bulutu, rüzgarın oyuncağı olur.
Rüzgar olmak ister bu kez. Ona da "Ol" der Tanrı.
Rüzgar her yere egemen olur, fırtına olur, kasırga olur. Herşey karşısında eğilir. Tam keyfi yerindeyken koca bir kayaya rastlar.
Ordan esen burdan eser, kaya banamısın demez! Bildiniz, Tanrı kaya olmasına da izin verir.
Dimdik ve güçlü durmaktadır artık dünyaya karşı... Sırtında bir acı ile uyanır.... Bir ihtiyar taşçı kayayı yontmaktadır. ..”
― Friedrich Nietzsche