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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
Through return to simple living comes control of desires. In control of desires stillness is attained. In stillness the world is restored.
We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.
If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.
To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.
It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.
The most recent studies both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic — something determined at conception.
Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.
The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.
If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
My wife never look at me anymore, my children, my wife ... we only die once in our life. I'm dying every day when I get up in the morning.
Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.
We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.
If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.