Mohammad

“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung

“Can you no longer see a road to freedom? It's right in front of you. You need only turn over your wrists.”
― Seneca

“a thing once done held much less fear, as the mystery of the unknown vanished.”
― Richard Nell, Kings of Paradise