Sayings & Quotes

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“And once you are awake,you shall remain awake eternally.”
Friedrich Nietzsche


“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, & the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet & they have to touch it to be sure.”
George Carlin

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“My religion is very simple.My religion is kindness: kindness is a simple religion, but its different from people-pleasing or seeking approval”
Dalai Lama



He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
Chinese proverb

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“Our enemy is not other people. Our enemy is hatred, violence,discrimination & fear.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

“Whether you believe in god or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist , whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed; compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers & sisters & respecting their rights & human dignity.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama

“We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when it is in fact the books that preserve their collector.”
Walter Benjamin

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“You have suceeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.”
Vernon Howard

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
Woody Allen

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on.”
Robert Frost

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain

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“The time is always right to do what's right.”
Martin Luther King

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
J. K. Rowling

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you & still loves you.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Ghandi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedreich Nietzsche

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I'm saying.”
Oscar Wilde

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
Narcotics Anonymous

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
Marilyn Monroe

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
 William Shakespeare

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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie Wiesel

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
Mark Twain

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein

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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
Dr. Seuss

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
George R.R. Martin

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“Where they have burned books,they will end in burning human beings.”
Heinrich Heine

“Many civilisations have died because mankind was not wise enough. And the same thing will be true for ours. If we continue to consume like this,if we don't care enough about protecting our wonderful planet, we will allow it to be burned wth global warming. Maybe seventy percent of mankind will die. The ecosystem will be destroyed to a very large extent, & we will need millions of years to start a new civilisation.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist:use it to be a better whatever-you-alrady-are.”
Dalai Lama

“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

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“May you be at peace.
May your heart remain open.
May you awaken to the light of your own true nature.
May you be healed.
May you be a source of healing for all beings.”
Tibetan Buddhist Prayer

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew each other. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
Carl Sagan

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‘Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.’
Thich Nhat Hanh

‘There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.’
Thich Nhat Hanh