“The beautiful is always bizarre.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
― Anguttara Nikaya of the Tipitaka

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”
― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Elective Affinities

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people"
― Carl Jung

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. Violence is any day preferable to impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”
― Adyashanti