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“You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“People are mysterious entities – try to take hold of them and you will only lose them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A person who prematurely believes that they comprehend the Tao sees only its external luster, and this is the beginning of delusion.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Therefore it is written: “If you do not seek perfection you will halt before taking your first steps.”
― Anonymous

“Avoidance of relationships in an attempt to avoid pain is not the answer either. The pain is there anyway. Three failed relationships in as many years are more likely to force you into awakening than three years on a desert island or shut away in your room. But if you could bring intense presence into your aloneness, that would work for you too.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say,”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There is no illusion greater than fear.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Teh Ching

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow.
None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master:
His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring