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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
― John Dewey

“The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment— that is the way.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Volume Two: More Guidance from the Book of Answers: 2

“To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Volume Two: More Guidance from the Book of Answers: 2

“A quiet-hearted person awakes with a smile on his lips and an eagerness in his heart for the day ahead.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom Volume Two: More Guidance from the Book of Answers: 2

“Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers

“We have the best chance of communicating our thoughts if we are sincere and speak from the heart, without hidden intent.”
― Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers

“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― haruki murakami

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."

[The Minotaur]”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”
― George Edward Moore

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.

Perform every action with you heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure: for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.

Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahma. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on its reward.”
― Ved Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

“You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become”
― Bhagavad Gita

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is”
― Bhagavad Gita

“Through selfless service, you will always be fruitful and find the fulfillment of your desires”
― Bhagavad Gita

“You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.”
― Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavad Gita