"We laugh, but inept is our laughter,
We should weep, and weep sore,
Who are shattered like glass and thereafter
Remolded no more."
Abul ʿAla Al-Maʿarri, Studies in Islamic Poetry

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Knowing that this body is like an earthen jar, making one's mind secure like a fortified town, one should fight Mara with the weapon of Knowledge. One should still continue to guard one's mind, and feel no attachment to that which has been gained - Buddhism For World Peace And Humanity (Facebook)

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet