Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Peace begins when the expectation ends.
- Topic: Expectations, Peace
- Location: Bonneville Salt Flats
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
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Nothing is as harmful as expectations.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.
