Only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

T. S. Eliot

Love flows towards happiness (Osho)

If you are happy, love will be flowing towards you... there is no need to ask. It is one of the basic laws. Just as water flows downwards, and fire flows upwards, love flows towards happiness... happinesswards. And this is the problem: people are miserable and love cannot flow towards them, so they make that a cause for their misery and they say we are bound to be miserable because love is not coming to us. Then they become more miserable, so even less love comes to them. Become happy and see - suddenly the whole world is there, available. Everybody was waiting for you to open your doors. The sun, the air, the fragrance was waiting to enter, and you were standing with closed doors. Open the doors.

Osho, Above All Don't Wobble

Fear-oriented and love-oriented living

So I say to you that there are two types of living. One: fear-oriented; one: love-oriented.

Fear-oriented living can never lead you into deep relationship. You remain afraid, and the other cannot be allowed, cannot be allowed to penetrate you to your very core. To an extent you allow the other and then the wall comes and everything stops. The love-oriented person is the religious person. The love-oriented person means one who is not afraid of the future, one who is not afraid of the result and the consequence, who lives here and now.

Osho, this text in Greek

Oh I'm a psychiatrist

"What do you do for a living?" I asked.
His hand shook so badly, as he lit another cigarette, that he knocked over the whisky bottle at his elbow.
"Oh I'm a psychiatrist," he said. "I help people who have problems."
Sangharakshita, Peace is a fire

Unless you love yourself...

Unless you are a healthy, growing individual – unless, as it were, you love yourself – you can't love others.
Sangharakshita, Peace is a fire

One is as though nothing is a miracle

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men

Nicht die Stärke, sondern die Dauer der hohen Empfindung macht die hohen Menschen.
It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil, Chapter IV: Apophthegms and Interludes, 72
Jenseits von Gut und Böse, Sprüche und Zwischenspiele

Ό,τι έκανα, δεν το έκανα εγώ

Ό,τι έκανα, δεν το έκανα εγώ. Το έκαναν οι άλλοι, για τους οποίους δεν ευθύνομαι. Ομως, βαρύνομαι. Σχεδόν αποκλειστικά.

Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος

http://greekpoems.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/στη-χώρα-των-θανάτων-σταύρος-stavropoulos/

Η ποίηση συμβαίνει όταν ένα ρήμα, ένα ουσιαστικό κι ένα επίθετο συναντιούνται για πρώτη φορά

Οι Ινδιάνοι λένε ότι η ποίηση συμβαίνει όταν ένα ρήμα, ένα ουσιαστικό κι ένα επίθετο συναντιούνται για πρώτη φορά. Η ερώτηση δεν είναι αν σου αρέσει, αλλά αν την αντέχεις. Η συντριβή είναι δεδομένη.
Σταύρος Σταυρόπουλος
http://greekpoems.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/στη-χώρα-των-θανάτων-σταύρος-stavropoulos/

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.
Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰 - Tennin Gosui)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

For happiness, cherish others

For happiness, cherish others.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Happiness too is an idol of the market-place

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They prefer the barren middle ground of nothing.

Most people are unwilling to suffer the experience of great joy or great sadness. They prefer the barren middle ground of nothing.

Commenting on the characters in Albee's, Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf, From: A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-century American Drama, C. W. E. Bigsby

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. You should be happy right in the here and now.

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. You should be happy right in the here and now. There is no way to enlightenment. Enlightenment should be right here and right now. The moment when you come back to yourself, mind and body together, fully present, fully alive, that is already enlightenment. You are no longer a sleepwalker. You are no longer in a dream. You are fully alive. You are awake. Enlightenment is there.
Life Is Now Or Never, a segment from a Dharma talk on August 26th, 2007, by Thich Nhat Hanh

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
(Για εσένα είμαι ένας άθεος· για τον Θεό, είμαι η αξιωματική αντιπολίτευση.)
Woody Allen

Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
(Si nous croyons les absurdités, nous allons commettre des atrocités)
Voltaire

The highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Discovers that the source is within him

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

While the author's wildly swerving train of thought did at one point flirt with coherence

While the author's wildly swerving train of thought did at one point flirt with coherence, this brief encounter was more likely a chance event than a result of even rudimentary lucidity.
Uknown