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“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.”
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
― Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
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“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
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