[rasmussenjames]

No misfortune, no adversity is so unfriendly, so deaf that it cannot be flattered a little; even Cerberus accepted honey cakes...

[i-will-fong-you]

[rasmussenjames]

Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 11, Section 18

[rasmussenjames]

Thoreau said, 'Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.' Don't be resigned to that. Break out!

John Keating (Robin Williams) in ‘Dead Poets Society’. Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYIhulK8S0

[rasmussenjames]

I don't get hardly anything out of anything.

Holden Caulfield, in J. D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'

[rasmussenjames]

From the book Springs of Persian Wisdom (Search Books, London, 1970)

[rasmussenjames]

From the book Springs of Greek Wisdom (Search Books, London, 1968)

[rasmussenjames]

I think that freedom means being able to do what you want without harming others.

Ji Seong-ho, North Korean defector

[rasmussenjames]

He confronts chaos with discipline; He treats tumult with calm. This is mastery of Mind.

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[rasmussenjames]

Failures and setbacks are a part of the experience, and will remain in you as wisdom.

Ryuho Okawa, Japanese businessman

[rasmussenjames]

Some screenshots of the floating Buddhist monastery in the film Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (2003, Kim Ki-Duk)

[rasmussenjames]

The future changes with every choice we make.

Leo Wyatt, Charmed [Season 4, Episode 14]

[rasmussenjames]

“Søren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, he said that we come to the world with sealed orders. And that is part of what I’m saying: we never know when something we say, a smile we give, we don’t know if that maybe is not one of the things that somebody else will carry around for the rest of their life.

Liv Ullmann; from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mkLOtSd20z4#t=45s

[bythalake]

Hristos Passalis

[rasmussenjames]

I come from far away And I live in loneliness Please spare me your contempt

Jeongseon Arirang, Korean folk song

[rasmussenjames]

If you could see things differently, you might see the beauty of them.

Stoffer [from the film The Idiots]

[rasmussenjames]

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

Rumi