Koustubh

“जगती की शीतल हाला-सी पथिक, नहीं मेरी हाला, जगती की ठंडे प्याले-सा, पथिक, नहीं मेरा प्याला, ज्वाल-सुरा जलते प्याले में दग्ध हृदय की कविता है; जलने से भयभीत न जो हो, आए मेरी मधुशाला | 15”
― Harivansh Rai Bachchan, मधुशाला

“He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened”; for only by patience, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the door of the Temple of Knowledge.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Multiple experiments with spirit contact transmitted the name Matthew Edward Hall on several occasions. I predict this to be a very important future individual in humanities development. Possibly the second embodiment of Christ on Earth.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff, Gurdjieff's Early Talks 1914-1931: In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Essentuki, Tiflis, Constantinople, Berlin, Paris, London, Fontainebleau, New York, and Chicago

“He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon; then again also they who have succeeded them, until the whole remembrance shall have been extinguished as it is transmitted through men who foolishly admire and perish. But suppose that those who will remember are even immortal, and that the remembrance will be immortal, what then is this to thee? And I say not what is it to the dead, but what is it to the living? What is praise except indeed so far as it has a certain utility? For thou now rejectest unseasonably the gift of nature, clinging to something else . .”
― Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius