Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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.
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.
What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.
I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.
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.