Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

Obedience . . . allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

If you tell yourself something often enough you will start to believe it, that is why you must make self love your mantra.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.

Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself!

Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions.

Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Drop jealousy and envy, for they make you ugly. Be loving, be accepting, and most of all... be happy just the way you are.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

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