“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.” - Buddha

“What is the good of your stars and trees,
your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into your daily lives?”
- E. M. Forster

“A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.”
- Saul Bellow

“Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names,
but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.”
- Muhammad Ali

 ”A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible
to one passing through the valley than to those
who inhabit the mountain?” - Kahlil Gibran

“No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.”
- Cyril Connolly

man sitting

“I really haven’t had that exciting of a life.
There are a lot of things I wish I would have done,
instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.
So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.”
- Kurt Cobain

“People who want to understand democracy
should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time
on the buses and in the subway.” - Simeon Strunsky

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein

“A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one.
Genius is the talent of a dead man.” - Carl Sandburg

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