"Peace comes from within. 
Do not seek it without".
(Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, 563-483 B.C.)







"Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness.
That is within your power."
(Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - Persian Sufi Mystic Poet








"Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
(William Shakespeare - English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)






"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever..."
(Isak Dinesen, pseudonym of Baroness Karen Blixen - Danish Writer, 1885-1962)










"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act."
(Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - Political and ideological leader of India, 1869-1948)









“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”
 (Jean-Jacques Rousseau - French philosopher, 1712-1778)








“Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
(Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Albanian born Indian Missionary and Founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity - Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979 - 1910-1997)










“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.”
(Lord Byron - British poet, 1788–1824)






“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
(Charlie Chaplin quotes - British actor and director, 1889-1977)












“In this universe it is love that binds everything together.
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life”.
(Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi), Indian Hindu guru known as Amma "Mother" and the "hugging saint" - Born 1953)










“Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.”
(Rabindranath Tagore - Indian Poet, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)










“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.”
(John Ruskin - English Writer, 1819-1900)










“There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
(Ovid quotes - Ancient Roman classical Poet and Author of Metamorphoses, 43 BC-17)






“Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.”
(Jules Renard quotes - French Writer, 1864-1910)






"I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest.
It might have existed, a photograph might have been taken, just like any other, somewhere else, in other circumstances.
But it wasn't.
The subject was too slight.
Who would have thought of such a thing?
The photograph could only have been taken if someone could have known in advance how important it was to be in my life, that event, that crossing of the river.
But while it was happening, no one even knew of its existence.
Except God.
And that's why—it couldn't have been otherwise—the image doesn't exist.
It was omitted.
Forgotten.
It never was detached or removed from all the rest.
And it's to this, this failure to have been created, that the image owes its virtue: the virtue of representing, of being the creator of, an absolute.”
(From “The Lover” by Marguerite Duras - French writer and film director, 1914–1996)




“Je veux une vie en forme d'arête (I want a fish bone shaped life)
Sur une assiette bleue (Lying on a blue plate)
Je veux une vie en forme de chose (I want a thingamajig shaped life)
Au fond d'un machin tout seul (In the deep bottom of a contraption)
Je veux une vie en forme de sable dans des mains (A hands-filled-with-sand shaped life)
En forme de pain vert ou de cruche (In form of green loaf or jug)
En forme de savate molle (In form of slabby slipper)
En forme de faridondaine (In form of faridondaine)
De ramoneur ou de lilas (Of chimney sweep or lilac)
De terre pleine de cailloux (Of ground filled with stones)
De coiffeur sauvage ou d'édredon fou (Of wild hairdresser Or besotted eiderdown)
Je veux une vie en forme de toi (I want a life in form of you)
Et je l'ai, mais ça ne me suffit pas encore (And I’ve got it, but it is still not enough)
Je ne suis jamais content (I’m never happy.)”
(“Je veux une vie en forme d'arrête” by Boris Vian, French writer, poet and musician,1920–1959)











“Color possesses me.
I don't have to pursue it.
It will possess me always, I know it.
That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one.
I am a painter.”
(Paul Klee - Swiss Artist, 1879-1940)





“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
(C.S. Lewis - British Scholar and Novelist, 1898-1963)








"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
(Emile M. Cioran - French philosopher, b.1911)






"...Man gropes and grovels amidst the ruins of his own making, looking for a park of light.
Harassed by fear, choked by sulphurous skies, haunted by planned but meaningless devastation and mass murders, organised by systems perfected through science, Man stands at a land's end, and faces a traumatic situation of cliff hanging brinkmanship.
And this is the kind of life we propose to bequeath our posterity.
It is a future killed by the present.
We look for a god that is not.
Like "Jerusalem Undelivered" we look for a Varanasi that is not, and yet is.
We search for a faith lost through overspreading; and our widowed hopes reach for a new redemption named Varanasi.
Varanasi retains that lost soul, despite the thrashings she has undergone.
In searching for the lost Varanasi we search for our last souls."
(from "Varanasi Redicovered" by B. BHattacharya)