“You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“But I think where a person is born and dies is very important. You can't choose where you're born, but where you die you can--to some degree.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It is Helen, daughter of Zeus, who most clearly articulates the relationship between her father’s plans and those of the poetic tradition: “Zeus set an evil lot upon us all, to make us topics of a singer’s tale for people in the future still unborn.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
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