“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”
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“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”
“I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.”
“Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.”
“We have a tendency to make assumptions about everything! The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are truth. We could swear they are real. We make assumptions about what others are doing or thinking-we take it personally-then we blame them and react by sending emotional poison in our word. That is why whenever we make assumptions, we're asking for problems. We make assumptions, we misunderstand, we take it personally, and we end up creating a whole big drama for nothing.”
“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”
“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.”
“People who make mistakes and learn from them are role models too. I'm just happy to inspire growth and positivity.”
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
“There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.”
“We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.”
“Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.”
“The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or nicest to be around; neither are some of them coming from the purest motivation. Climbing another V17 is not going to save the world! This activity of 'rock climbing' is merely one of many ways to exist, pass the time, and evolve and grow from one moment to the next. That’s all.”
“Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.”
“Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.”
“The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.”
“Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.”
“Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.”
“Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.”