“We must carry out our duties, dedicating the spirit to God and with detachment from all interest in the things of the world and free from enmity towards any living being.”
― The Bhagavadgita
― The Bhagavadgita
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Yet I liked him too much… way too much, and I ripped him out of my heart so it wouldn’t get to hurt me more than it did.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“A fleeting vision, however vivid and permanent its effects may be, is not complete attainment. The search for abiding reality, the quest of final truth cannot end, in emotional satisfaction or fitful experience.”
― The Bhagavad Gita
― The Bhagavad Gita
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