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Quotes

Lines worth returning to. Not for agreement — for testing against your own seeing.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
The unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
— Rumi
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realise this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
— Lao Tzu
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
— Simone Weil