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It is only when you know a boy's environment that you can know what influences to bring to bear.
You can always debate about what you should have done. The question is what are you going to do?
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
By meditation we develop that strength within us, so automatically we start solving the problem.
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Whatever you give, if you give it freely and without conditions it'll come back to you two fold.
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.
Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
It is not that which is beautiful that pleases us, but that which pleases is is called beautiful.
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.
When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs, if they are not immoral.
A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.