"The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic boundless measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment."
Rabindranath Tragore
"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise." Alice Walker
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." Anais Nin
"I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot." Anais Nin
"Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind.
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living."
Bertrand Russell
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