The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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