He who has reached the consummation, who does not tremble, who is without thirst and without sin, he has broken all the thorns of life: this will be his last body.
Buddha
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.
Herman Melville
From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure knows neither grief nor fear.
Buddha
To be, or not to be, that is the question
William Shakespeare
The Love of the soul is for wisdom and knowledge, that of the body for houses, gardens, and vine-yards.
Rumi
Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.
Mark Twain
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Forests are delightful; where the world finds no delight, there the passionless will find delight, for they look not for pleasures.
Buddha
It is not difficult to capture a fortress but it is difficult to win a campaign.
Leo Tolstoy
That formless God takes a thousand forms in the eyes of His creatures: He is pure and indestructible, His form is infinite and fathomless, He dances in rapture, and waves of form arise from His dance.
Kabir
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The sight of the elect is good, to live with them is always happiness; if a man does not see fools, he will be truly happy.
Buddha
There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all
Leo Tolstoy
I am a sick man…. I am a spiteful man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!
Buddha
Once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Margery Williams
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears
Charles Dickens
All beings are unmanifested in their beginning, O Bharata, manifested in their middle state, and unmanifested again in their end. What is there then to grieve about?
Lord Krishna
patta patta boota boota haal hamara jaane hai, jaane na jaane gul hi na jaane baagh to saara jaane hai
Mir Taqi Mir
When he sees the separate existence of all beings inherent in the One, and their expansion from That alone, he then becomes Brahman.
Lord Krishna
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same
Emily Brontë
If a man is tossed about by doubts, full of strong passions, and yearning only for what is delightful, his thirst will grow more and more, and he will indeed make his fetters strong.
Buddha
All children, except one, grow up.
J. M. Barrie
I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Few are there among men who arrive at the other shore; the other people here run up and down the shore.
Buddha
Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
Jane Austen