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"The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed."
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
"It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty."
"All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
"Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts."
"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."
"Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!"
"The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people."
"There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes."
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life."
"Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel." "As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
"Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change."
"Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well."
"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
"...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success."
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
"The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."