Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves. Leo Tolstoyĭoubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. Gustave FlaubertĬivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces. Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions. “Whoever is faced with the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.” – Friedrich Dürrenmatt Carl RogersĪll generalizations are dangerous, even this one. The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. The most selfish thing we can do is to be unselfish because it frees us. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. He has the most who is most content with the least. Bertrand RussellĪ man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Spender,ĭead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. Chris JamiĮxtraordinary men are always tempted by the most ordinary things. “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” – Pliny The ElderĪ fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are a slave. Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship. You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him discover it in himself. To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. Great things always begin from the inside. If broken by an inside force, life begins. If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy. If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. The most important things are the hardest to say because words diminish them. RumiĪ life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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