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Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Determination and perseverance move the world; thinking that others will do it for you is a sure way to fail.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service.
Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.
When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.
Why do people argue? Even the wisest of men have not found God through argument! Is God a subject for argument?
I think what we've done is given children a lot of things that they didn't ask for instead of what they do want.
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.
People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.
I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.
To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.
Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"
Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.
One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.
Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.
I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.
Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.