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.
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.
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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.
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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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.
