“Again and again, the sacred texts tell us that our life’s purpose is to understand and develop the power of our spirit, power that is vital to our mental and physical well-being.” – Caroline Myss
Month: May 2023
“An innate quality among sentient beings, particularly among human beings, is the urge or strong feeling to encounter or experience happiness and discard suffering or pain. Therefore, the whole basis of human life is the experience of different levels of happiness. Achieving or experiencing happiness is the purpose of life.” – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth….each person enters the world called.” – James Hillman
“Man would rather have the void as purpose than be void of purpose.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine. What is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.” – Susan Sontag
“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself; he who goes away pleased with himself and his own wit is also greatly pleased with you. Most men…seek less to be instructed, and even to be amused, than to be praised and applauded.” – Jean de La Bruyere
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.” – Sir Isaac Newton
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.” – Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
“Nobody cares how much you know until he knows how much you care.” – Collins Atendido
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
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