“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
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