Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.
The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
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