"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

(Kahlil Gibran)

"Isn't this enough? Just this world Just THIS?"

(Tim Minchin)

In practicing the Dhamma, there have to be causes. If there are no causes, there are no results. If the causes are good, the results will be good. If the causes are bad, the results will be bad.
(Ajahn Khamdee)

“Suffering is something to be comprehended. When you comprehend it, you let it go. Why would you want to wear it?”
(Ajahn Dune)

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
(Hunter S Thompson)

"There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
(Allen Ginsberg)

Now, as formerly, I just point out dukkha and its cessation.
(Majjhima Nikaya 1, 251)

"Pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence."
(Frida Kahlo)

Somewhere between the lies and truths, borderlines get shady.
Somewhere between the yeses and nos you can find a maybe.
Somewhere between the highs and lows you can spot the middle.
Somewhere between the questions and clues you can solve the riddle.
Somewhere along the road you might need a place to stay.
Somewhere along the line you're gonna have to pass away.
And somewhere in space you still remind me of a reason.
And summertime you still smell like my favorite season.
(Everlast)

"Only the dead cannot practice meditation."
(Ajahn Maha Boowa)

"Nature endlessly in every direction, inward to your body and outward into space."
(Jack Kerouac)

"When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love."
(Manly P. Hall)

"If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession."
(Carlos Casteneda)

The world says, "Don't worry about whether you're good or bad, as long as you have money." This is just the opposite of the Dhamma, which says, "Don't worry about whether you're rich or poor, as long as you're a good person."
(Ajahn Lee)

"That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty."
(Rudolf Steiner)

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

(Joseph Campbell)

"So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."
(Lewis Carroll)

"The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream."
(Jack Kerouac)

"The major lesson Tiggers need to learn is that if they don't control their impulses, their impulses will control them. No matter how much they do, Tiggers are never satisfied because they don't know the feeling of accomplishment that eventually comes when one persistently applies one's will to the attaining of non-immediately-reachable goals."

(Benjamin Hoff, 'The Te of Piglet')

Thousands of years ago, man lived

in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered "beneath" himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. 
(Benjamin Hoff, 'The Te of Piglet')

"While Eeyore frets ...
... and Piglet hesitates
... and Rabbit calculates
... and Owl pontificates
...Pooh just is."
('The Tao of Pooh', Benjamin Hoff)

"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death."
(Charles Bukowski)

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

An intelligent person knows how to use both good and evil without causing harm. Arahants even know how to use their defilements so as to be of benefit. When sages use common language, it can serve a good purpose. But when fools use fine language, it can be bad. If they use bad language; it's even worse.
(Ajahn Lee)

"The tranquility of the moments set apart will also affect everyday existence. In his whole being he will grow calmer; he will attain firm assurance in all his actions, and cease to be put out of countenance by all manner of incidents. By thus advancing he will gradually become more and more his own guide, and allow himself less and less to be led by circumstances and external influences. He will soon discover how great a source of strength is available to him in these moments thus set apart. He will begin no longer to get angry at things which formerly annoyed him; countless things he formerly feared cease to alarm him. He acquires a new outlook on life."
(Rudolph Steiner)

"If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking.  Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up."
(Thomas Merton)