"It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other."

-- George Augustus Henry Sala

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“I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.”
“I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.”
“Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.”
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”
“When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.”

Source : Angeles Arrien (1993). “The four-fold way”
“Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.”
“A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.282
“Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.”

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