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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
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
- Voltaire
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
- Timothy J. Keller
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce
Let us unite them together in one supreme power which shall govern us all according to wise laws, protect us and defend all members of the association, repulse common enemies and maintain us in everlasting concord…
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
- William Goldman
Restrain the mind until it dissolves in the Consciousness. This is wisdom, this is meditation. The rest is all logic and verbal extensions.
- Upanishads
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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