The object of life

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Marcus Aurelius

The hardest thing in the world

“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
Ayn Rand

True?

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”
Janis Joplin, Me & Bobby McGee

What do you say to God?

“When you pray, what do you say to God?””I don’t say anything, I listen”. – “Well okay … when God speaks to you, then, what does he say?” “He doesn’t say anything. He listens.”
From an interview to Mother Teresa

The cosmos is a stage

“The cosmos is a stage and life is a passage on the set of this stage: you enter, you look and you exit.”
Democritus