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Esther Vilar

"If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job, he is held up as an example of virtue and responsibility. The other type of man, living only for himself, working only for himself, doing first one thing and then another simply because he enjoys it and because he has to keep only himself, sleeping where and when he wants, and facing woman when he meets her on equal terms and not as one of a million slaves, is rejected by society. The free, unshackled man has no place in its midst."

-- Esther Vilar

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“It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people Iâ€™d loved the most in the world, the ones Iâ€™d always told all my secrets to, the ones Iâ€™d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldnâ€™t imagine why. It couldnâ€™t possibly matter why.”
“Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.”
“The holiness of God is like a white light: pure, simple, complete. But when that light shines, as it were, through the prisms of individual human lives, it breaks into an infinite variety of colors... each one reveals a unique dimension of the divine holiness.”

Source : Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, Image
“Whether you believe in God or not does not matter much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life.”
“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
“In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.”
“Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.”
“I tell you one thing. If you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.”

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