“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.

When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.”
- Albert Camus

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“The battle to save life is still going on. … This battle to save life will eventually be won. … Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed.

Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.”
- Ba Jin (Born November 25, 1904)

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“Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.”
- Tecumseh

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“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.”
- Elizabeth Drew

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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”
- Orson Welles

“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
- Winnie the Pooh

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.”
- Charlotte Whitton

“They always talk who never think.”
- Matthew Prior

“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.”
- Aung San Suu Kyi

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
- Pericles

“Don’t be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.”
- Marianne Williamson

“The one who moves the mountain is the one who starts moving the small stones. The mountain could be the self, a relationship, a challenging task or situation. All challenges are opportunities in disguise. An opportunity to elevate the universe one person at a time.”
- Roozbeh Bahramali

“It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
- André Gide (Born November 22, 1869)

“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.”
- Terry Pratchett



















“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Those who trust us educate us.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge men’s search
To vaster issues.

So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.

This is life to come, —
Which martyred men have made more glorious
For us who strive to follow. May I reach
That purest heaven, — be to other souls
The cup of strength in some great agony,
Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty,
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,
And in diffusion ever more intense!
So shall I join the choir invisible
Whose music is the gladness of the world.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

The realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

The heart must break
For lack of voice, or fingers that can wake
The lyre’s full answer; nay, its chords were all
Too few to meet the growing spirit’s call.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.”
- George Eliot (Born November 22, 1819)

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
- Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

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“Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”
- Drew Barrymore

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

“To boldly go where no man has gone before.”
- Star Trek

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.”
- Azarias

“The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom…

Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.

Everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being…

This whole which is visible in different ways in bodies, as far as formation, constitution, appearance, colors and other properties and common qualities, is none other than the diverse face of the same substance…

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Divinity reveals herself in all things… everything has Divinity latent within itself.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life…

The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.

Eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion.

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.”
- Giordano Bruno

“This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say. I don’t plan it. When I’m outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

There is a community of the spirit Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street, and being the noise.

There is no reality but God, says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

I can’t stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, “Put this design in your carpet!”

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin.

Christ is the population of the world, and every object as well.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future.

Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both,you don’t belong with us.

Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating.

God’s lion did nothing that didn’t originate from his deep center.

This that we are now … The human body and the universe grew from this, not this from the universe and the human body.

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through, and be silent.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

To Love is to reach God.

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown.

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required…

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Even if you lose yourself in wrath for a hundred thousand years, at the end you will discover, it is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.

Didn’t I tell you?They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings, they will call you ugly names, they will make you forget it is me, who is the source of your happiness.

The branch might seem like the fruit’s origin: In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit.

The Astronomy of the Spirit
The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic.

Your soul is so close to mine
I know what you dream.
Friends scan each other’s depths;
Would I be a Friend, if I didn’t?
A Friend is a mirror of clear water;
I see my gains in you, and my losses.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”
- Mevlana Rumi

“No other sense can make up for your missing sense of taking part. Even sight heightened to become all-seeing will do you no good without a sense of taking part.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists…

Whatever else we might think of this world — it is astonishing.

I’m sorry that my voice was hard. Look down on yourselves from the stars, I cried, look down on yourselves from the stars…

We, my lord, are your dream, which finds you innocent for now.

Everything the dead predicted has turned out completely different. Or a little bit different — which is to say, completely different.

My apologies to great questions for small answers.

How can we talk of order overall when the very placement of the stars leaves us doubting just what shines for whom?

Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light…

We call it a grain of sand but it calls itself neither grain nor sand…

The view doesn’t view itself. It exists in this world colorless, shapeless, soundless, odorless, and painless.

There’s no life that couldn’t be immortal if only for a moment…

Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan…

For the sake of research, the big picture and definitive conclusions, one would have to transcend time, in which everything scurries and whirls.

I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds — a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.”
- Wislawa Szymborska

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

There is a thing inherent and natural,
Which existed before heaven and earth.
Motionless and fathomless,
It stands alone and never changes;
It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.
I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

The Tao is called the Great Mother:
empty yet inexhaustible,
it gives birth to infinite worlds.

The Tao is like a well:
used but never used up.
It is like the eternal void:
filled with infinite possibilities.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, “We did this ourselves.”

Since before time and space were,
the Tao is.
It is beyond is and is not.
How do I know this is true?
I look inside myself and see.

A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent upon arriving.
A good artist lets his intuition
lead him wherever it wants.

Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.

A journey of a thousand li starts with a single step.

The mark of a moderate man
is freedom from his own ideas.
Tolerant like the sky,
all-pervading like sunlight,
firm like a mountain,
supple like a tree in the wind,
he has no destination in view
and makes use of anything
life happens to bring his way.

Wise men don’t need to prove their point;
men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.
The Master has no possessions.
The more he does for others, the happier he is.
The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
The Tao nourishes by not forcing.
By not dominating, the Master leads.”
- Laozi

“If you want love, be love. If you need hope, be hope. If you long for a hero, be heroic.”
- Cory Booker

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein

“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
- Albert Schweitzer

“Love cannot remain by itself; it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action & that action is service.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
- Mother Teresa

“If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
- Frank A. Clark

“Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?”
- Sai Baba

“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
- Holocaust Museum

“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
- Thomas Mann

“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”
- Arthur Stringer

“Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.”
- Isaac Asimov

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
- Victor Hugo

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
- Henry David Thoreau