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Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
The more you know the less you need to say.
The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
All is well that ends well
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
