“Shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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“I would like to take this opportunity to explain the Zone of Ahimsa or peace sanctuary concept, which is the central element of the Five-Point Peace Plan. I am convinced that it is of great importance not only for Tibet, but for peace and...”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

“Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“the writer is much more fortunate than the filmmaker, who is almost always doomed to show too much...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“the observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“I'll tell you . . . what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter—as I did!”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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