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Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul.
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
If you do not think well of Him because His qualities are beautiful then think well of Him because of the way He treats you.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.
Enlightenment of your brain means the limited capacity of your brain has to become unlimited in its capacity to realize God.
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.
The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.
Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.
Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.