If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.
He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
The most important time is Now
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me consolation - it is the one unbreakable diamond.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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