“Our prayers lie to deep for tears. Our dreams exceed human capacity. We live by necessity. We are more than poetic shadows, indiscrete reflections on the wall of a cave. We possess inner truth.”
“There are a lot of people who do not care about public interest. In fact, they always cater to their own self-interests.”
“If we live a vigorous life exhibiting great equanimity and curiosity while displaying unreserved compassion and charity for all the creatures and plants of this world, we will be more than dim shadows on a dark planet. We make our life matter whenever a person lives in a genuine manner, struggles to realize their innate potential, and brings lightness and cheerfulness into other people’s abodes.”
“they have taught man that he is a hopeless misfit made of two elements, both symbols of death. A body without a soul is a corpse, a soul without a body is a ghost— yet search is there image of man’s nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is non-existent, that only the unknowable exists.”
“يظن نفسه مركز الكون وأن الجوزة تدور من أجله. والحق أن الجوزة تدور لأن كل شئ يدور، لو كانت الأفلاك تسير في خط مستقيم لتغير نظام الغرزة. وليلة أمس أقتنعت تماما بالخلود ولكني نسيت الأسباب وأنا ذاهب للأرشيف.”
“When we go through a bad time, All others seem to have a good one.”
“To the mean all becomes mean.”
“Chi abita nel cielo e quanto paga d affitto? Ecco le lune di Giove sopra i fili del telefono, il viale sarà tutto magnolie e i giardinieri avranno un gran lavoro.”
“Live life so damn well and good that death, when it comes to take you, it won t feel that well or good.”
“Sorry. But as Mother Nature willed, you are. If born a man, so you are. If a woman, so be it. Interchanging of genders is your will, not the Divine Will. Tomorrow you may feel like being a cuckoo, will you so become? But you re welcome to your will. As is every cuckoo.”
“Yes, we all die but there s a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet trail that we leave in our wake for others to marvel at.”
“I ve many regrets in life, but not ever life itself.”
“When you have lost your freedom of reasoning, you become silent.”
“Happiness is knowing what you want and acting on it.”
“The greatest fear that human beings experience is not death, which is inevitable, but consideration of the distinct possibility of living a worthless life.”
“Friendship can thrive only where there is no self-interest involved.”
“هنا لم يعد لدينا سر، لم يعد لدينا ما نخفيه. إننا نحن من أصبحنا سرًا، نحن المختفون، بينما كل ما نفعله، نفعله في في رائعة النهار وفي الضوء الساطع.”