Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
- Topic: Accountability, Self
- Location: Cancun, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
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If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's--eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.
