Public education has not produced an educated public.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- Topic: Desire, Gratitude, Life
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Love means to love that which is unloveable. Otherwise it is no virtue at all.
We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.
A good joke is the one ultimate and sacred thing which cannot be criticized.
You find out the necessity of Liberty as you find out the necessity of air—by not having enough of it.
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
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.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
In all Chaos there is a Cosmos, In all Disorder a secret Order.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
