My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Happiness Quotes
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Some do not understand that we must die, But those who do realize this settle their quarrels.
The thing that is disliked by me is also disliked by others. Since I dislike this thing, how can I inflict it on someone else?
There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Life is about timing.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Love is a serious mental disease.
— Plato
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
You should ignore that person’s impure behavior by way of speech and body, and focus on the fact that they get an openness and clarity of heart from time to time. That’s how to get rid of resentment for that person.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Appearances are often deceiving.
— Aesop
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
— Laozi
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
Fortune befriends the bold.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
— Voltaire
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
— Cicero
I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
Ethics change with technology.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Leave no stone unturned.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
— Horace
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
— Laozi
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.
Our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as being able to remake ourselves.
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist, we create it.
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.