"Enlightenment is not an achievement. It is a return home. Your senses create the impression that you are experiencing phenomena from the outside, but you have never experienced anything external. When you realize that all your experience comes from within, that will be the return home, which is enlightenment." Sadhguru
"The universe is constantly working on you, transforming you both internally and externally. Every person is an unfinished creation that slowly, step by step, approaches perfection. We are all incomplete sketches that will inevitably become finished works of art."
Elif Shafak
"Art is the right task of life. The essence of all beautiful art, of all great art, is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso
"Art is the expression of the deepest thoughts in the simplest way." Albert Einstein
"Anyone can study science—one with greater, another with lesser difficulty. But from art, each person receives as much as they themselves can give." Arthur Schopenhauer
"Did the effort seem fruitless to you? Blind one, step back a few paces... The magic of skilled hands created masterpieces, did it not? But believe me, successes and failures created them equally... A beautiful dance is born from the ability to dance."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It persistently reflects on death and persistently creates life."
Boris Pasternak
"Masterpieces are not born by themselves or alone—they are the outcome of years of thought nurtured collectively by an entire people, so that behind the voice of one stands the experience of many." Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
"When love and mastery are united, a masterpiece may be expected."
John Ruskin
"Art is the embodiment of beauty, a harmonious combination of parts. Art is beyond the power of reason; it is intuitive. Its comprehension comes before intellectual understanding. That which is not beautiful is not art."
H. A. Livraga
"Never go back. There is no point in returning. Even if the same eyes are there, the ones in which your thoughts once drowned. Even if you are drawn to where everything was still so sweet, never go there, forget forever what was. The same people live in the past who promised they would always love you. If you remember that—forget it; never go there. Trust them? They are strangers, after all. They left you. They killed your faith in your soul and in love, your faith in people and in yourself. Simply live by living, and even if life sometimes resembles hell, look only forward, never going back."
"— Henaro's love is this world," he said. "He has just embraced this immense Earth, but since he is so small, all he can do is swim in it. Yet the Earth knows that he loves her and showers him with her care. That is why Henaro's life is filled to the brim, and wherever he may be, his state will be one of abundance. Henaro wanders along the paths of his love, and wherever he is, he is whole."
K. Castaneda, "Tales of Power"
"When we see the world through the eyes of love, it reveals its best sides."
Carlos Castaneda
"It is useless to spend your life on a single path, especially if that path has no heart."
Carlos Castaneda
"Forgiveness, compassion, peace, love—
In times of trouble, we call upon them.
And in the abundance of their gifts,
We bless their light.
Forgiveness, compassion, peace, love—
They are the Lord Himself.
Forgiveness, compassion, peace, love—
His spirit and flesh within us.
Forgiveness—the fruit of human hearts,
Compassion fills our gaze,
Holy love—our crown,
And peace—humanity's attire.
All people have one Creator,
Everyone who is naked and alone,
In prayer honors love's crown:
Forgiveness, compassion, peace.
To us, every person is a brother, every bloodline,
Turk and Jew alike.
Let peace in, let love in—
Our Father stands at the door."
"Nothing in the world is lasting except love. Love cannot lose its way if it is true love, not a feeble little monster stumbling and falling at every step." Jack London, "Martin Eden"
"Everyone's youth passes, but love is another matter." Ivan Bunin, "Dark Avenues"
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"But it is sad to think that in vain
Our youth was given to us,
That we betrayed it every hour,
That it deceived us;
That our finest desires,
That our finest dreams
Were consumed in swift succession,
Like leaves rotting in autumn.
It is unbearable to see before us
A long procession of dinners,
To look upon life as a ritual,
And follow after the decorous crowd,
Without sharing with it
Either common opinions or passions.
"I’ll drown in your eyes—May I?
For drowning in your eyes is happiness!
I’ll come up and say, “Hello!”
“I love you very much”—Is it difficult?
No, it isn’t difficult, but it’s hard.
It’s very hard to love—Do you believe me?
I’ll approach the steep precipice.
I’ll fall—Will you catch me in time?
And if I leave—Will you write?
It’s just hard for me without you!
I want to be with you—Do you hear me?
Not for a minute, not for a month, but for a long time.
For a very long time, all my life—Do you understand?
Then always together—Would you like that?
I’m afraid of your answer—You know?
Answer me, but only with your eyes.
Answer me with your eyes—Do you love me?
If you do, I promise you
That you will be the happiest man.
If you don’t, then I beg you,
Don’t reproach me with your gaze, please,
Don’t pull me with you into the abyss,
But remember me just a little…
I will love you—May I?
Even if I mustn’t… I will!
And I will always come to help
If things become difficult for you!"
E. Asadov
"If a person has died, you can't stop loving them, damn it. Especially if they were better than everyone who is alive."
Jerome David Salinger, "The Catcher in the Rye"
"You need to have something in common in order to understand each other, and something different in order to love each other."
Paul Géraldy
