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The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-violence and non-existence.
O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
Nothing is difficult, if you seek it through your Lord; nothing is easy, if you seek it through your self.
He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.
Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.
God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.
The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
My words are easy to understand and easy to perform, Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.
People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.
I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.
Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.