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“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan

“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“Under the sword lifted high, There is hell making you tremble. But go ahead, And you have the land of bliss.”
― Miyamoto Musashi

“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Ryokan

“When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.”
― Confucius

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Truth may seem, but cannot be;
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she:
Truth and beauty buriéd be.”
― William Shakespeare

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
― Bob Dylan

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson