All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
- Topic: Innovation, Perception, Thinking
- Location: Arches National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.
Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, “Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.”
Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
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.
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.