“All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. —Shantideva, ninth-century Indian mystic”
― Cupid's Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships
― Cupid's Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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