And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.
The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.