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All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.
Let this Christmas Day remind us that Christ came to invite us to offer love to ALL humankind and to open the door of God's Kingdom to Every soul.
Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
If you did not have any personality, you would have a tremendous presence. The more rigid your personality, the more constipated your whole being.
I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.
You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.
That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
The only way to make the right decision is to find out which is the wrong decision, to examine that other path without fear, and only then decide.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye.
On the spiritual path, the first thing is to experientially ascertain where your are right now. You can only start the journey from where you are.
You will never be powerful in life until you are powerful over your own money. How you think about it, how you feel about it and how you invest it.
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.