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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
― Tagore

“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Only describe, don't explain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E.B. White

“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other”
― Slavoj Zizek

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in
the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at
all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and
marrow of Mother Earth.

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and
the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk
or an evening saunter...to be thrilled by the stars at night;
to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring—
these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

The most precious things of life are near at hand, without
money and without price. Each of you has the whole
wealth of the universe at your very door. All that I ever
had, and still have, may be yours by stretching forth your
hand and taking it.”
― John Burroughs

“The weapon of criticism obviously cannot replace the criticism of
weapons. Material force must be overthrown by material force. But
theory also becomes a material force once it has gripped the masses.”
― Karl Marx

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.”
― James Hillman

“That gives peace, when people feel that they are living [as] actors in the divine drama. That gives the only meaning to human life; everything else is banal and you can dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya compared with that one thing, that your life is meaningful.”
― C.G. Jung, The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
― Confucius

“To fight with desire is hard: whatever it wishes, it buys at the price of soul.”
― Heraclitus