Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
~Buddha
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ”-Voltaire
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon (via blackfreakincanada)
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…To begin with, I could no longer fall in love, because, I repeat, with me to love meant to tyrannize and hold the upper hand morally. All my life I have been unable to conceive of any other love, and I have reached the stage when I sometimes think now that the whole of love consists in the right, freely given to the lover, to tyrannize over the beloved. Even in my underground dreams I did not picture love otherwise than as a struggle, always beginning with hatred and ending with moral subjugation, and after that could not even imagine what to do with the conquered victim.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground. (via saybutlittle)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell (via jayarrarr)
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
— Hannah Arendt (via the-altway)

“The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good”
- Gabriel García Márquez






