The Secret of Life
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Curley, the trail boss says "You know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that." One of the visitors to the dude ranch asks the old cowboy, "What's the one thing?" Curly answers: "That's what you've got to figure out."
— City Slickers
Literary Wisdom
How sense-luscious the world is. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar of the senses. . . . We need to return to the feeling textures of life.
— Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of the Senses
Proverb
The rose is a friend of the thorn.
— Afghan proverb in International Dictionary of Proverbs
Christian Wisdom
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
— Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird
Sufi Wisdom
The Sufi approach is summarized by Sheikh Muzaffer, a modern Sufi teacher: "Keep your hands busy with your duties in the world, and your heart busy with God."
— Robert Frager and James Fadiman in Essential Sufism
Hindu Wisdom
The spiritual journey is one of continuously falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, looking sheepishly at God, and taking another step.
— Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher, yogi, and poet
Question
What do you know for sure?
— Film critic Gene Siskel's signature line