Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

ALL IMPULSES OF THOUGHT HAVE A TENDENCY TO CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN THEIR PHYSICAL EQUIVALENT.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

I have found truly jubilant Christians only in the Bible, in the Underground Church and in prison.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

What is truth? Truth is what causes you to breathe again when lies have told you, you are already dead.

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

Sometimes when it looks like I'm deep in thought I'm just trying not to have a conversation with people.

She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.

The things you have that money won't buy are the things that will enable you to get more of the things that money will buy.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

I mean, I can't say that I've had many deep thoughts because I traveled alone, but it's good to be with myself in the quiet.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

Haters are like crickets. Crickets make a lot of noise, you hear it but you can’t see them, then right when you walk by them, they’re quiet.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

One should express his viewpoint regarding what he performed in his country and in a vast part of the world with great respect and deep thought.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

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