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Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years I shall be read? Seven." "Why seven?" Bunin asked. "Well," Chekhov answered, "seven and a half then.

Do you know what's one mistake we always make? Believing that life's immutable, that once you get on a particular track you have to follow it to the end of the line. But it appears that fate has more imagination than we do. Just when you think you're in a situation you can't escape from, when you've reached the lowest depths of total desperation, everything changes as fast as a gust of wind, everything's overturned; from one second to the next you find you're living a new life.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Do you know what gives a woman most pleasure within marriage? 'Sex'? ..No, making food. Watching her man eat

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Do you realize you can actually listen a person's soul into existence? Your fervent interest in the inner life of those you care for can awaken their dormant powers. The teacher Richard Moss says 'The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.' Offer this gift.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

Do you think the people who were trying to reach to the Everest were not full of doubts? For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? But, still, people come from all over the world, risking, knowing they may never return. For them it is worth it - because in the very risk something is born inside of them: the center. It is born only in the risk. That's the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.

Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

Dropt tears have hastened your decay, And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of Love's golden breath, And seen the light in eyes that loved. You think you hold the core and kernel, Of all the world beneath your crust, Old dial? But when you lie in dust, This vine will bloom, strong, green, and proved. Love is eternal.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Each day is a start of a new adventure, and I eagerly look forward to today.

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.