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- In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
- Krishnamurti
- If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.
- James Agee (1909 - 1955), Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
- Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
- Terry Pratchett, Discworld
- Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
- Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
- If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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