Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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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.
However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
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.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
