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Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Look at people in your life as “practice.” The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
Don't stumble over something behind you.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.
Look for the answer inside your question.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
You are the most powerful magnet in the universe! You contain a magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything in this world, and this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts
Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
