You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.
My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.
Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you’re like an immigrant to your own world. You don’t have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it.
If you're willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you'll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.
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