"We are presented with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in secular society."

-- Alain de Botton

#Letting Go Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The sea is whipping the skyThe sky is whipping the seaYou can hide away forever from the stormBut you'll never hide away from me.”

Source : Song: Bad For Good, Album: Bad for Good
“We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.”
“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”
“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
“I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“I try to only worry about things I have control over.”
“However naÃ¯ve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.”
“Abu Dharr once described the people of the world, says, "They breed what will they ultimately bury, they build what will eventually be destroy, they hold firm to what is emphemeral, and they forsake what is everlasting. Hence, blessed are the two cries people abominate most: Death and poverty.”

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