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A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
If you have more negative things than positive things in your life, then something is very wrong and you know it.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
All the past has done is generated the you that you are now. Dwelling on the past isn't going to change anything.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.
If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
True power and true happiness are when you use your success to make others around you feel even more significant.
The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself.
Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
The world needs all the help you can give by way of cheerful, optimistic, inspiring thought and personal example.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.
There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
Nothing good ever happens in a blackout. I've never woken up and been like, 'What is this Pilates mat doing out?'
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.
Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings