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Ester asked why people are sad.
“That’s simple,” says the old man. “They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
- Paulo Coelho
When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
- A Spiritual Leader
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Blessed with a priceless life, why should I not fit it with compassion for all beings?
- Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.
- Fernando Pessoa
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