Quotes

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best - Epictetus

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him - John Locke

Jim Morrison

Awake, shake dreams from you hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
- Jim Morrison

Legend has it that when someone remarked to Voltaire, "life is hard", he retorted, "compared to what?"

From the Merchant of Venice

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.

Main kya jiya
Mujhko jeevan ne jiya
Boond boond kar piya
Pi kar path par
Khali sa chod diya

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.