Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Gratitude Quotes
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— Aesop
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.
Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.
'All conditioned things are impermanent' — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
The biggest room in the world is room for improvement.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The cautious seldom err.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
Never mistake motion for action.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Don’t sacrifice your own welfare for that of another, no matter how great. Realizing your own true welfare, be intent on just that.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
— Laozi
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
— Yoko Ono
The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
— Man Ray
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
We must become the change we want to see.
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
— Voltaire
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Love is a friendship set to music.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Knowledge has three degrees: opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
— Plotinus
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
— Plutarch
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Do more than dream: work.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Each day provides its own gifts.