"No stream rises higher than its source"

“The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.”

“Many are called but few get up.”

Source : Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.16, BookRix

“The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.196, Harmony

“Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.”

“The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.”

“What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

“By showing a picture, you're showing an x-ray of your heart.”