"People are all alike, but not at all alike, but in the final analysis, all alike." (Ajahn Mun)

"Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night."
(Hunter S. Thompson)

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"All life is but a skull-bone and a rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel - just so's we can burn so furious beautiful."
(Jack Kerouac)

My own motto is, "Make yourself as good as possible, and everything else will have to follow along in being good." If you don't neglect yourself for the sake of external things, you'll have to be good. So you shouldn't neglect yourself. Develop your inner worth to your own satisfaction.

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)

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

"Wisdom means the skill & ability of the heart alone which must penetrate into everything without exception - even pebbles & grains of sand - that can give rise to attachments" (Ajahn Mun)