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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