You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain.
Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one's true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way
A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.
Muhammad introduced the concept of such Glorious and Omnipotent God in Whose eyes all worldly systems are pieces of straw. Islamic equality of mankind is no fiction as it is in Christianity. No human...
On occasion we stumble upon what seems to be a truth. Compared to the surrounding blackness, it sparkles and dazzles our eyes. But are these actually truths? Are our eyes really feasting upon light?...
We must have the love that exists among children, for with them love rules without any special purpose.
Children need the lie to be brave enough to sleep in their beds
As a being and life form, all of mankind must seek the absolute sunshine of being. To do otherwise is to deny the essence of life; which is growth in body mind and soul. These in turn reflects Self...
It is when I find my soul is lost and lustfully wandering betwixt heaven and hell, and in that moment of spiritual bliss when the chances of recovering from falling into the sexual abyss are zero... I...
There is no such thing as, "I trust you a little or I trust you a lot." You either trust, or you do not.
When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
Let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure
Everyone has a worldview, and everyone is positive theirs is the correct one. I can tell you without a doubt your wrong.
Because in the end, we die. It's like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: 'in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.'
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.
I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.
For if you do not wish to be 'just a number' then do not measure yourself accordingly. Bank statements and scales are instruments employed by society that confine you to a limited summation of...
The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.
What are challenges to a mind that strongly believes in its limitless potential?
Time is a creation of vague mind used to describe an unknown dimension in the 3D world.
By concentration is meant to know that all dharmas {elements of existence}, from the very beginning have no nature of their own. They neither come into nor go out of existence. Because they are caused...
The mind has got various phases. But all these phases merge and are transformed into one "Atma" - God with forms and attributes, and finally God without forms and attributes.
The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.
There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.
No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion.
Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.