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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
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.
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.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
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.
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
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.
There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
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.
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.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.
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