#profound

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#profound #forgiveness

I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#hell #profound #death

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain... ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #profound #quest #simple #inspirational

All I really, really want to do is find a very, very fine chocolate store that I can walk into and then figure out how in the world one manages to pick out just a few chocolates out of all those very many chocolates! If I am one day able to walk into a fine chocolate store and know for certain which chocolates I want, when that happens, I will believe myself to be accomplished! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#chocolates #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#time

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#father #had #influence #lunatic #me

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#art

Till this moment I never knew myself. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? ↗

— Euripides

#philosophical #profound #wisdom #death

There is a profound difference between information and meaning. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#difference #information #meaning #profound