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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
The cautious seldom err.
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
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.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.
The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
Order is power.
Beans have a soul.
Virtue is harmony.
