Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
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We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.
Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of the blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation of favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
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.
Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.
The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
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.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
