“I only included things that everybody likes, like violence, flowers, children, women, friendship and death.” Quote by Tomonobu Itagaki
“If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.” IfsDesireEaseForsake Author:Nagarjun
“It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.” SaidRealSelfTeachTeachingTaught Author:Nagarjun
“If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire” IfsDesireGreaterBlissWorldlyScratches Author:Nagarjun
“The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.” Author:Nagarjun
“Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.” DoeCausesArise Author:Nagarjun
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingWritingWellsHeartMayEnoughEyeSecretKnow HowDrawsPoliceSentencesObsessionSlipsBlinkBurstingSlyBlink Of An EyeSecret Police Author:Sy Safransky
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.” MenRealityLosesDangerEssentialsSightWisestMultiplicity Book:Ethics Source: Ethics
“Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.” MeanReaderAvid Author:Alec Sulkin
“Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.” MightHateCompassionDrawsI HateMessCatastropheHate MeHarbinger Author:Alain de Botton
“MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.” StoriesEmotionalDramaPlatformsAustralian Author:Michael A. Healy