From Śāntideva: “So take advantage of this human boat. Free yourself from sorrow’s mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!”
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Quote of the day 10/02/25
From Śāntideva: “We are the authors of our own destiny; and being the authors, we are ultimately, perhaps frighteningly, free.”
Quote of the day 09/23/25
From Xenophon: “Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.”
Quote of the day 09/11/25
From Kazuo Ishiguro: “If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
Quote of the day 08/25/25
From Haruki Murakami: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Quote of the day 08/21/25
From Henri Bergson: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Quote of the day 08/18/25
From E.E. Cummings: “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”
Quote of the day 08/14/25
From E.E. Cummings: “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Quote of the day 07/31/25
From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Quote of the day 07/19/25
From Basho: “In the end, without skill or talent, I’ve given myself over entirely to poetry. Po Chu-i labored at it until he nearly burst. Tu Fu starved rather than abandon it. Neither my intelligence nor my writing is comparable to such men. Nevertheless, in the end, we ALL live in phantom huts.”
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