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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Listen to many, speak to a few.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“To die, - To sleep, - To sleep!
Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”
― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Seneca

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
― Seneca the Younger

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
― Seneca

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special.

The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you are fed up with the world, then again the ego starts finding new ways and new means to enhance itself - it becomes spiritual. You become a great mahatma, a great sage, a great scholar, a man of knowledge, a man of renunciation; again you are special.

Unless the desire to be special disappears, you will never be special. Unless you relax into your ordinariness, you will never relax.”
― Osho

“Be here now.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker