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Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.
No one's ever really given me any style advice. I wear what I want, and it doesn't matter what other people think.
One thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give somebody's land to somebody else
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.'
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.
I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.
This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.
If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.