In the modern world, there is a tendency to be required to surrender one's life more and more, giving autonomy over personal destiny to others and society. Life Is A Circus
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Quote:- In the moment between sleep and wakeI kiss my blanketKissing you goodbye
Finding Identity
Author:- Silenus
Category:- best
Quote:- In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.
Walden
Author:- Henry David Thoreau
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
Author:- Susan Neiman
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the multitude of wisdom is grief, and they that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.
The Anatomy of Melancholy; Volume 1
Author:- Robert Burton
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
Collected Poems in English and French
Author:- Samuel Beckett
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the name of look beautiful help the world by being beautiful inside and out to avoid confusion.
Author:- Nozipho N. Maphumulo
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
Summer Knight
Author:- Jim Butcher
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In the new century science will defeat famine, boredom, and the plague, but . . . vital knowledge will become so elevated that nobody will know how anything works. . . . the good news is that everybody will be empowered; the bad news is nobody will understand why.
Aloha
Author:- Mark Christensen
Category:- knowledge,science
Quote:- In the past, I used to think that it is fundamental and natural to have everything. But I realized that is not true. Instead I realized that those are things to be grateful for. After that realization, I became comfortable. Even if I don’t have it I am grateful. Such a realization also made me understand that is a way to love myself.
Author:- Goo Hye Sun
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith.
The Meaning of Life
Author:- Terry Eagleton
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Author:- Chögyam Trungpa
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- In the process of finding the true 'I' you have to become formless and infinite as the Supreme One. Become one with the universe.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Life
Quote:- In the pull of unknown, I sense my thirst and so I wander the way wild winds do, the way tides long for the shores, the way the stars through darkness meander like the ships adrift at sea, the way robins flutter in the winds, the way the sea lulls itself to sleep and starlight lives in the deepest of my deeps....
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In the pull of unknown, I sense my thirst, and so I wander, the way wild winds do, the way tides long for the shores, the way the stars through darkness meander, like the ships adrift at sea, the way robins flutter in the winds, the way the sea lulls itself to sleep and starlight lives in the deepest of my deeps..... In search of a river, I came at last, one rainless summer day, for lost I was in living without the love, my thirst is what split me in deeps. In the burning sky, I beheld your blaze. You blow as the wild winds blow from east, on the sands are the footprints beneath the blues of heaven, and in the sun, a golden gem. Your love as a river into my mouth, your blaze blows every desire that had me possessed, your arms have me wrapped tight with the light, for ended is the dark as dawn breaks in my deeps. From hither to thither, in longing I will flow, and eternally you will be the river for my thirst.
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In the pull of unknown, I sense my thirst, and so I wander, the way wild winds do, the way tides long for the shores, the way the stars through darkness meander, like the ships adrift at sea, the way robins flutter in the winds, the way the sea lulls itself to sleep and starlight lives in the deepest of my deeps..... In search of a river, I came at last, one rainless summer day, for lost I was in living without the love, my thirst is what split me in deeps. In the burning sky, I beheld your blaze. You blow as the wild winds blow from east, on the sands are the footprints beneath the blues of heaven, and in the sun, a golden gem. Your love as a river into my mouth, your blaze blows every desire that had me possessed, your arms have me wrapped tight with the light, for ended is the dark as dawn breaks in my deeps. Hither to thither, in longing I will flow, and eternally you will be the river for my thirst.
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- motivational
Quote:- In the pull of unknown...I sense my thirst....and so I wander...the way wild winds do....the way the tides long for the shores...the way the stars through darkness meander....like the ships adrift at sea....the way the robins flutter in the winds...the way the sea lulls itself to sleep....and starlight lives in the deepest of my deeps....
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- motivational