Inspiring quotes

"...the one that laughs at what he ignores is on the way to becoming an idiot. " - S.A.W.

How true!!!
How many times have you seen that happen ?!

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You must die
Before you die
So that you don’t die
When you die

Saying from Athos

"Be careful of temptation, the more you look at it, the better it looks."

Unknown

"What the father possesses belongs to the son, and the son himself, so long as he is small, is not entrusted with what is his. But when he becomes a man, his father gives him all that he possesses."

-Gospel of Philip-

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

William Shakespeare

In the temple of science are many mansions . . . and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them there. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who has offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, it would be noticeably emptier but there would still be some men of both present and past times left inside. . . . If the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have existed any more than one can have a wood consisting of nothing but creepers . . . those who have found favor with the angel . . . are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other than the hosts of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple . . . no single answer will cover . . . escape from everyday life, with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.

 The passage is from a 1918 speech by a young German scientist named Albert Einstein.

The Christ was once resting under a tree, near a pond, when a young man came near him and asked: “Master, what must I do to find the truth?” – Without responding, The Christ approached him, and pushed him into the pond, then kept the young man’s head under the water. Vainly, the man struggled to get free. When he began to faint, The Christ let him out. Once the young man had recovered, The Christ asked him: “When you were under the water, did you think of beautiful women, money and ambitions?”. “No”, he answered. “Did you think of delicious meals or travels around the world?”. Once again, the young man’s answer was negative.

Then The Christ added: “The day you long for truth with the passion you longed to breathe, when you so deeply long for it in your SOUL, that day you will find it”.