"When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide."

-- Byron Katie

#Suicide Quotes #Gun Quotes #Self Quotes

“Profound, bottomless self-doubt - it has no value - what's the point? In a way, it takes up as much time as anything else.”
“The tree falls not at the first stroke.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.517
“You know what the best kind of organic certification would be? Make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmerâ€™s bookshelf. Because what youâ€™re feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. The way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing whatâ€™s sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms.”
“What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.”
“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”
“Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the more extraordinary his life becomes. What emerges is something grander precisely because it is human, to the extent that his actual life reveals itself worthy of the word 'legendary'.”

Source : Lesley Hazleton (2013). “The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad”, p.14, Penguin
“Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.”
“It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.”

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