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So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
- Scriptures

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
- Marcel Marceau

For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
- Dhammapada

To be absolutely independent in each and every field of life, is your first and
foremost duty. If you are burdensome to anyone, for anything...then your life is
a complete waste.
- Deep Trivedi

In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
- Swami Vivekananda

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln

The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition; that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
- Alan Wilson Watts

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