“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
― The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
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“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
― The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts
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