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“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.”

Anita Moorjani (1959) writer

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDA8mkhAvV5/

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

"Note on Dogma"
Proper Studies (1927)
Source: Complete Essays 2, 1926-29

“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”

Aldous Huxley book Island

Source: Island

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

Aldous Huxley book Island

Source: Island

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

Aldous Huxley book Point Counter Point

Source: Point Counter Point

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book Manon, Ballerina

“Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.”

Kristen Stewart (1990) American actress

YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIPZ3dHD4Y&feature=player_embedded

“The only reason something feels really good, it’s because you didn’t know it before. If you fall in love, it’s because it captures you and sweeps you off your feet. If you didn’t have anxiety, then you wouldn’t have passion for anything. The reason we have anxiety is because you care and you’re thoughtful.”

Kristen Stewart (1990) American actress

Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/kristen-stewart-suppressing-emotions-giving-822486/amp/

“What you seek is seeking you.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“Being alive is about messing up gloriously, and I will fight for that ability to gloriously mess up because I don't believe that humans are statues or sculptures.”

Alok Vaid-Menon (1991) American performance artist, and LGBTQ rights activist

“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”

Édouard Boubat (1923–1999) French photographer

Source: Autorovy deníkové zápisky

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create a raw landscape within us, a sun eternally setting on what we are.”

Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Os sentimentos que mais doem, as emoções que mais pungem, são os que são absurdos – a ânsia de coisas impossíveis, precisamente porque são impossíveis, a saudade do que nunca houve, o desejo do que poderia ter sido, a mágoa de não ser outro, a insatisfação da existência do mundo. Todos estes meios tons da consciencia da alma criam em nós uma paisagem dolorida, um eterno sol-pôr do que somos.
The Book of Disquietude, trans. Richard Zenith, text 196

“We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived."”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

“I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

“Nothing lasts but nothing is lost. ”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist