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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.
You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.
A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.
Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!
We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.
You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude. Glow with gratitude and see how awe and joy will make their home in you.
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.
Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow.
However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.