Annefleur De Leeuw Quotes & Sayings

The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means. — Robert Thurman

It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — H.G.Wells

Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee — John Steinbeck

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are more fools in the world than there are people. — Heinrich Heine