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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.”
― Omar Khayyám

“For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.”
― Kakuzo Okakura, Book of Tea

“People are not taught to be really virtuous, but to behave properly.”
― Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow." "So does port," I said cynically.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home