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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.”
― David M. Ogilvy

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“And this is to be done during your whole life. Don’t fight with anything, and don’t try to escape from anything. Let things take their own course. You simply close your eyes and move inside to the center where no sun’s ray has ever penetrated. There is no shadow—and really, that is the meaning of the myth that gods have no shadows. Not that there are gods somewhere who have no shadows, but the god that is within you has no shadow because no outside penetrates there. It cannot penetrate; it is always in the shade. Chuang Tzu calls that shade Tao, your innermost nature—utterly innermost, absolutely innermost.”
― Osho, Intimacy: Trusting Oneself and the Other

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
― Robert Brault

“To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.”
― Robert Brault

“The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.”
― Robert Brault

“Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.”
― Robert Brault

“Never act until you have clearly answered the question: What happens if I do nothing?”
― Robert Brault

“Don't follow me, I'm lost.”
― UG Krishnamurti, Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-Shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G.

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind is a Myth

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Bruce Lee

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
― Bruce Lee

“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“There is neither creation nor destruction,
neither destiny nor free will, neither
path nor achievement.
This is the final truth.”
― Ramana Maharshi, Sayings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”
― Ramana Maharshi

“I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, – that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity. But I find that thy will knows no end in me. And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
― Najwa Zebian

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“This is doable, isn’t it?” she asked. “Technically, it’s doable,” he replied, looking up at her. “It’s insane. But it’s doable.”
― Daniel H. Wilson, The Andromeda Evolution

“There’s nobody who can save me right now, Mr Wind-up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks fake. The only thing that isn’t fake is that gooshy thing inside me.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle