I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.
There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.
He who understands humanity seeks solitude
Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can't understand it.
Silence is the garden of thought.
Release what no longer serves you to create a space for that which does. And yes, sometimes this even means people.
Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which contingencies a priori improbable, are given, in the process of time, an increasing probability, until it is their non-occurrence rather than their occurrence which becomes highly improbable.