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"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman

"Strenuously seeking truth by investigation and concentration, one will never appreciate the unthinkable simplicity and bliss that abide at the core."
Tilopa

"The illumination from an oil lamp lights the room instantly, even if it has been dark for aeons."
Tilopa

"If you are beyond all grasping at an object and at a subject,
that is the monarch of all views.
If there is no distraction,
it is the monarch of all meditations.
If there is no effort,
it is the monarch among all conducts.
When there is no hope and no fear,
that is the final result,
and the fruition has been attained or revealed."
Tilopa

"We don't love others when we find them beautiful, we find others beautiful when we love them."
Josei Toda

"Leave Life alone. Let it be."
Eckhart Tolle

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
Leo Tolstoy

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
Leo Tolstoy

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
Leo Tolstoy

"There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers."
H. M. Tomlinson

"What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work, I shouldn't have done it."
Mark Twain

"Listen to her voice, hear it echo through creation. Without fail, she reveals her presence. Without fail, she brings us to our own perfection."
Lao Tzu

"If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man."
Lao Tzu

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
Lao Tzu

"Ambition has one heel nailed in a well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens."
Lao Tzu

"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
Lao Tzu

"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."
Lao Tzu

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao Tzu

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."
Lao Tzu

"The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
Lao Tzu

"The words of truth are always paradoxical."
Lao Tzu

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. "
Lao Tzu

"Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good."
Lao Tzu

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows."
Lao Tzu

"The moment truth is asserted, it becomes false."
Lao Tzu

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
Leonardo da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
Leonardo da Vinci

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
Leonardo da Vinci

"A true friend stabs you in the front."
Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
Oscar Wilde

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
Oscar Wilde

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
Oscar Wilde

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
Oscar Wilde

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. "
Oscar Wilde

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
Oscar Wilde

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Oscar Wilde

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
Oscar Wilde

"Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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