I must create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s.
I will not Reason and Compare. My business is to Create.
~ William Blake
The afternoon of life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.
~ Carl Jung
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
~ Dylan Thomas
Post-mortem life:
Everything gets doubly precious, gets piercingly important. You get stabbed by flowers and by babies and by beautiful things.
~ Maslow
If name be needed, wonder names them both;
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.
~ The Way of Life, Lao Tzu
Confucius said:
… When a man carries out the principals of conscientiousness and reciprocity he is not far from the universal law. What you do not wish others should do unto you, do not do unto them.
~ From The Golden Mean of Tsesze XIII
A wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one is like one who looks up and spits at heaven; the spittle soils not the heaven, but comes back and defiles his own person.
~ Buddha, The Sutra of Forty-Two Sections
This is the sum of all — righteousness.
In causing pleasure or in giving pain
In doing good or injury to others
A man obtains a proper rule of action
By looking at his neighbor as himself.
~ The Mahabharata
More flesh, more worms;
More wealth, more worry;
More women, more witchcraft;
More concubines, more lechery;
More slaves, more thievery.
(But) More Law, more life;
More study, more wisdom;
More counsel, more enlightenment,
More righteousness, more peace.
~ The Talmud (from Mishna)
We do not exist for ourselves (as the center of the universe), and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give others.
~ Thomas Merton
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