"The flowers of life are but illusions...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
“So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.”
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“Good writers touch life often.”
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.”
“Important thing to realize is the world is not here to make me happy. When you don't demand that the situation, or place, or person should make you happy, then actually the situation, place, or person is quite satisfying.”
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“You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.”
“In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.”
“I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.”