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Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Things do not change; we change.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep

She said, It's not life or death, the labyrinth.

Suffering, she said. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.

Take it easy, but take it.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

There are no ordinary moments.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Anyway because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis at any time of night or day.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.