There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
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If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
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The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
