“People say that what we are seeking is a meaning of life. I don’t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Clouds – Rabindranath Tagore
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
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Fool – Euripides
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
– Euripides
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Pig wrestling – Unknown
“Don’t wrestle with a pig – you’ll end up covered in mud and the pig will enjoy it”
– Unknown
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Pedestal – Unknown
“If you put someone on a pedestal, they have no choice but to look down on you.”
– Unknown
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Envelope ― Mark Twain
“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
― Mark Twain
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Goals – Freud
“Our two goals in life are human connection and achievement.”
– Freud
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Inheritance – Ruth E. Renkel
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritances.” If herchildren inherit her values, anything else is just money.”
– Ruth E. Renkel
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
– Ben Okri
“Doing is better than thinking, and over thinking will cause under-doing.”
– Kanwer Singh, Humble the Poet
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Socrates – Woody Allen
“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
– Woody Allen
“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.”
– Simone Signoret
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Marriage – George Leving
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.”
– George Levinger