"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

-- Franz Kafka

#Depression Quotes #Health Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 16, 2015
“Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.”
“The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.”
“What I believe is that we have this extraordinary spirit inside ourselves, which for me is our Buddha nature. I believe we are in the process of opening and getting closer and closer to our Buddha nature and stripping away all that is covering it. I don't think I'm going to end up meeting this one being up there or out there.”

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