“A thinking man’s greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.”
Calm quotes.
Words for slowing down, breathing out and coming back to now.
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“Whatever decision or challenge or crossroads you face in your life, simply ask yourself, “What is essential?” Eliminate everything else.”
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.”
“You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.”
“Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.”
“People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing — refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.”
“The mind must be indulged, and leisure must be given from time to time, which is the place of food and strength.”
“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”
