Complete possession is proved only by giving. Reflections on Literature and Morality
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. The Prophet
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Modern Man in Search of a Soul
“Oh, threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! / One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; / One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; / The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.” Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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