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“You keep asking, ‘Is there a God?’ What are you going to do? Whether there is or isn't, mind your own business! If there is a God, will you play the good guy to please him? If there isn't a God, will you play the bad guy, thinking you won't be punished? Whether God exists or not, you are what you are! Mind your own business! You're wasting your time wondering whether God exists or not!”

“The broader you can see the world, the more beneficial you can be to humanity! Narrow angle restricts your world and when your world is restricted your thoughts are restricted and when your thoughts are restricted your knowledge is restricted and with restricted knowledge you can do much less good to humanity and even can do a lot of harm!”

“Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!”

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”

“In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!”

“You might escape from an underdeveloped country and go to a developed one, only to find out that the developed country is actually underdeveloped too! The solution? Whether you live in an underdeveloped country or a supposedly developed one, what you need to do is isolate yourself, create safe, peaceful spaces for yourself, and experience your freedom on your own islands, far from the crowds!”

“Let your ideas die, let your art die, let your fame die, let all these disappear, but you live! You are more important than your thoughts, more important than your art and your fame, you are more important than all your works! Never change life with anything else! If necessary, give up everything, everything but life!”

“Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people!”

“The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!”

“To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!”