One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
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One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
If we are demoralized, sad and only complain, we’ll not solve our problems. If we only pray for a solution, we’ll not solve our problems. We need to face them, to deal with them without violence, but with confidence - and never give up. If you adopt a non-violent approach, but are also hesitant within, you’ll not succeed. You have to have confidence and keep up your efforts - in other words, never give up.
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
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