David

“the springs of human joy are almost always poisoned by possessiveness; and the joy of possession is restricted by the object possessed and by the fear of losing it.”
― Isha Schwaller de Lubicz

“All things transient are but a parable.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part Two

“When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cultural orientation and that of the historical moment to which one belongs.”
― Mircea Eliade, Yoga: Immortality and Freedom

“Whether you are shivering with cold or too hot, sleepy or wide awake, spoken well of or badly, dying, or doing anything else, do not let it interfere with doing what is right. For whatever causes us to die is also one of life's processes. Even for this, nothing is required of us than to accomplish well the task at hand.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations