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Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.

Paul Tillich

Age does not protect you from love, but love protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

Schopenhauer

Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow

Mata Amritanandamayi

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience the most painful tragedies by far: but for just this reason they honour life, because it pits its greatest opposition against them.

Nietzsche

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years’ time that wouldn’t come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they’d all be back, because all the same tests would be the same result.

Ricky Gervais

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.

Katherine Henson

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche

The bad news is that time flies. The good news… is that you’re the pilot.

Dir. Ben Willis, Cashback

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.

Seneca

If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.

Seneca

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.

Rumi

A Perch of Birds

Hector Giacomelli ca. 1880

Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast’s pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.

J.S. Mill

I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser than he to this small extent—that I do not think I know what I do not know.

Socrates, Apology

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Virtue is freedom, it is not a process of enclosure. It is only in freedom that truth can come into being. Therefore, it is essential to be virtuous, not righteous, because virtue brings order. It is only the righteous man that is confused, that is in conflict; it is only the righteous man that develops his will as a means of resistance, and a man of will can never find truth, because he is never free.

Krishnamurti

The Fall of the Damned, c.1620 - Peter Paul Rubens - WikiArt.org

Real revolution does not come merely at the superficial level, at the economic level. Real revolution lies in our hearts and minds, and it can only come when we understand the whole total process of our being from day to day, in every relationship. And then only is there a possibility of preventing technical knowledge being used for the destruction of man.

Krishnamurti

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Haruki Murakami

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

Krishnamurti

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