Greatness is the flower of great adversity.

Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life.

Our view of the mind not only shapes our view of ourselves; less obviously, it also shapes our view of that part of our experience we conceive of as dealing with the external world. As...

Love is most powerfulLove is most resourcefulLove is most wonderfulLove is most blissful.

On the bank of an ocean, let your mind fly in the cloudless sky while your heart enjoys the love of the sun.

When you consider time and change, you realize that a people does not originate when individuals merge into a bigger thing. Instead, a people arises when many actions and movements combine into novel patterns of...

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

It is better to love than expecting love.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. And then they want the person to change. If...

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors.

Thou art imperishable. Thou art changeless reality. Thou art the source of life.

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

Wherever you are, for sure, you are everywhere.

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: “Don’t think, don’t politicize, forget about the...

Don’t you think most of those kids think too much about who got an A or a B when they were in law school and what that means to an inflated G.P.A. and not enough...

Sharing is an inherent sign of growth.

Of Equality–as if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself–as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Win over the fear and adversity and prove yourself wrong.

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a...

By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes...

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.

My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves...

My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others…

Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

As for Doing-good,that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried itfairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agreewith my constitution. Probably I should not...

Where you are no is the reflection of your lifelong thoughts and actions.

In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: Did the universe have a beginning? However, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about...

Let’s have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

As you think, so you are.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

When any person harms you, or speaks badly of you, remember that he acts or speaks from a supposition of its being his duty. Now, it is not possible that he should follow what appears...

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements.

You will find the peace, not by looking outside, but by changing your thoughts, feelings and perception inside.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

Be peaceful to bring peace to the world.

Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.