Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think...

Life has a purpose and that is to be happy, and happiness is the fruits of our love and labor.

You can touch the moon if you really want to do it.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

More often than not, how you give is more important than what you give.

Always be positive, enjoy the music of rain on a rainy day.

Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against othermisfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day

Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest.

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are...

If you do not question everything, you may never find the true answer, you will only find the answer everyone wants to believe.That it called being another sheep in the herd, that is why the...

Great habits sharpen our thoughts and make us great.

…he asked, “Where are you today, right now?”Eagerly, I started talking about myself. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. Still, I told him about my distant...

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he...

Respond with love and kindness when someone trying to hate you and hurt you.

The window of opportunity is always open, just you have to find it.

A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world–a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I’m at once a pure, beautiful,...

Thomas Jefferson, that owner of many slaves, chose to begin the Declaration of Independence by directly contradicting the moral basis of slavery, writing “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created...

You are a candle in darkness and love is your light, so illuminate the world with the light of your love.

for that men have been good does not suffice for them to continue being good, unless one cares about it to the end.

When you’re happy only then you can spread the seeds of happiness around.

Belief is a shelter, so before believing, always find out the truth.

We are our own worst enemy.

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

fewer mistakes” than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress.

We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats’ feet over broken glassIn our dry cellarShape without...

Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth.

Luck is a dance of possibilities and opportunities.

See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-name for all sorts...

Knowledge is abundant but wisdom is rare. Knowledge might be dangerous but wisdom is fair.

It is important to distinguish ‘pure chance’ from ‘chance’ or ‘accident.’ Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe…Now there is perhaps a sense of ‘could not have done otherwise’ in...

Dance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

If you have a definite purpose, if you have a driving desire to achieve it and if you go with passion, then don’t wait for success because you are already a success.

Masochism is more widespread than we realize because it takes an attenuated form. The basic dynamism is as follows: a human being sees something bad which is coming as inevitable. There is no way he...

Expectations define achievement.

Let’s go with what you have to get what you want.

One always has to wonder anew how anyone could imagine a god, who, so overwhelmingly intelligent and powerful as to have been able to create this enormously complex world and the vast universe it floats...

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

When the heart is torn and broken, only love and kindness can mend it.

There exists only a mechanism by which meaning flows from intangible mind element into real event – and when you see that, all the postulated structures and cosmologies, built only of concepts, dissipate like yesterday’s...

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

The driving desires of human hearts are to be loved and appreciated.

What’s matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile.

I consist of body and soul – in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn’t we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more;...

Kindness is the universal language of pure love, so let us express ourselves with kindness.

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

Every philosophy is a foreground philosophy — that is a hermit’s judgment: “There is something arbitrary in his stopping here to look back and look around, in his not digging deeper here but laying his...

Every moment, with every heartbeat, we change, but still we fear the change.

Septimus has been working too hard” – that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I...