"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
(Charles Bukowski)

"There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for."
(Paulo Coelho)

'For the average man, the world is weird because if he's not bored with it, he's at odds with it. For a warrior, the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable.
A warrior must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous time.'
(Carlos Casteneda)

"In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

"Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?"
(Jack Karouac)

Fate whispers to the warrior.
" You cannot withstand the storm"
And the warrior whispers back.
" I am the storm "

"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" … "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self … Take off your coat and crash wits." And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox."
(Jack Kerouac)

"I am a person living in the world, the world is angry so I can be angry, the world laughs so I can laugh. We are not brick Bhikkhus or cement Bhikkhus."
(Ajahn Maha Boowa)

"What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? What's earth? All in the mind."
(Jack Kerouac)

"Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume..."
(Jack Kerouac)

“In the area of the world, you have things that you have. In the area of the Dhamma, you have something you don’t have.”
(Ajahn Dune)

"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls" .

(Jack Karouac “The Dharma Bums”)