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"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."

"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."

"The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!"

"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."

"The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom."
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"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure."


"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."


"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."


"It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die."


"In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read."


"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."


"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."
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