I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
