To hold a rosein your hand,you must firstoffer your blood.

Magnificent beauty of nature inviting you to long for her, to love her, and then purify your heart and mind with the illuminating beauty of nature.

Problems come to our life not to give us pain, but to make us humble, kind, strong and fearless.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a...

When you trust yourself, everyone around you will trust you, too.

To be a leader, you have to lead yourself first.

Beginnings of youth to growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes.

My only advice is to feel with joy, listen with your heart, be kind to all, be compassionate when needed, and love endlessly.

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

It’s only when we dare to experience the full anxiety of knowing that life doesn’t go on forever that we can experience transcendence and get in touch with the infinite. To use an analogy from...

Life is a journey without destination but it unfolds our conscious and subconscious expectations.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

For deep adherents, the Koran would seem to echo great truths given directly to a vaunted and hallowed prophet by a deity of overwhelming power and grandeur. If you don’t hold any such archaic notions,...

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

If a teacher teaches you what to think, but not how to think, it is not a true education.

The real Journey is a personal venture into your own mind content. Nobody, not the greatest mystic, the most vaunted guru, the most hailed psychologist, though they might shuttle you along the trail for a...

Be the gardener of gratitude to grow flowers of happiness in your garden.

In the beginning – in the early days – they said, “We are making the world better. When we came to this place there was nothing except forest and wild animals and people who ran...

good judges of how the deity would behave,” then such an unknown and unpredictable deity cannot provide good explanatory grounds for any phenomenon. The problem with the ‘minimal view’ is that in trying to be...

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has...

Death twitches my ear;’Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.

When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness.

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, à ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant à celui qui scrute le fond de l’abysse, l’abysse le scrute à son tour.

Good things happen, bad things are done…

We want money but we crave appreciation.

because a propositional justification exists for doing one thing, but not for doing another.” But why should we be reasonable, is the next come-back. Again, the answer is obvious. For one, because it would be...

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant...

Follow your bliss on the way to success; all the obstacles will melt away.

Now let’s talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It’s so powerful. Because of people dreaming; things are being done and things are being...

My teacher asked my favorite color. … I said ‘Rainbow’…. and I was punished to stand out of my class.

When you have the ability to dream, you have the capability to do.

Stercus accidit.

Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

The educated don’t get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

‎I love even to see the domestic animals reassert their native rights — any evidence that they have not wholly lost their original wild habits and vigor; as when my neighbor’s cow breaks out of...

Don’t base reality on what you have seen when you have seen very little.

We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

Have you achieved your goal today? Fantastic! Set a goal for tomorrow, next month, next year, and years from now.

Oh, don’t pull your hand away from me, I’ve promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall understand, oh maybe it will be on Hell’s road that I shall be...

FRANCISCUS: How sweetly she looks! Oh, but there’s a wrinkle in her brow as deep as philosophy.

Have the courage; have the boldness; believe in yourself; you will be a success.

I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.

Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance?Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal that will make this world a better place for future generations.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.