Mark Sim > Mark's Quotes

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“Don’t be confused by
surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. And those who live the mystery
falsely and badly (and they are very many) lose it only for themselves and
nevertheless pass it on like a sealed letter, without knowing it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj