Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
- Topic: Solitude, Thinking
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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
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.
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.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.
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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
