We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom because it argues that all life is finite and, consequently, it matters how we spend our time.
Why employ racehorses if you’re going to make them plough the fields?
It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed. - Doe Zantamata