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Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
- Wallace Stevens
When the force of the desire for Truth blossoms, selfish desires wither away, just like darkness vanishes before the radiance of the light of dawn.
- Adi Shankara
There lives at least one being who can never change - one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness - who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.
- Charles Dickens
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore, not by book, nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries comes after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
- Rumi
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
- Michael Cunningham
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Come behold this world, which is like unto an ornamented royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the wise there is no attachment.
- Dhammapada
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
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