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Wise Quotes
Few things are impossible through diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson ... [Read More]
The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt ... [Read More]
For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson ... [Read More]
In youth we learn, in old age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ... [Read More]
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Paine (1737-1809) ... [Read More]
Personal wealth has never been important to me. What is important is the team of people I work with.
George Davies ... [Read More]
Work joyfully and peacefully knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen ... [Read More]
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) ... [Read More]
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear.
Mark Twain ... [Read More]
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill ... [Read More]
Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine, out of the dearth and famine, into the fullness divine.
Margaret Sangster (1858-1912) ... [Read More]
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
- Leonardo da Vinci ... [Read More]
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau ... [Read More]
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) ... [Read More]
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt ... [Read More]
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim wisdom the source of virtue and of fame, obtained with labor for mankind employed and when most share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) ... [Read More]
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Goethe (1749-1832) ... [Read More]
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Edward Rickenbacker (1890-1973) ... [Read More]
It is a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) ... [Read More]
It is criminal to steal a purse. It is daring to steal a fortune. It is a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as guilt increases.
Schiller (1759-1805) ... [Read More]
Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834) ... [Read More]
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
Pessimist, one who when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) ... [Read More]
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
George Massey (1828-1907) ... [Read More]
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) ... [Read More]
Every where you trip a treasure lies.
Zardoz quote ... [Read More]
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Mike Nease ... [Read More]
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Emerson (1803-18882) ... [Read More]
All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.
C. G. Jung (1875-1961) ... [Read More]
Religion is essentially the art and theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Sivananda (Born 1887) ... [Read More]
Religion is the intellectual resolution of the unknown.
Buckminster Fuller(1895-1983) ... [Read More]
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which ones to burn.
David Russell ... [Read More]
The gods are the creations of the creator. They are not emanations of The Eternal. They are made by the adoration of the worshipers. It is not the gods that do the work of creation. This is done by the great natural forces working each according to its nature, the gods come into their procession after the egg of manifestation has been laid in the darkness of the cosmic night.
Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700?A.D.) ... [Read More]
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
Heaven is never deaf but when man’s heart is dumb.
Quarles (1592-1644) ... [Read More]
Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worse cloak.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) ... [Read More]
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, then words without heart.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) ... [Read More]
In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Richard Sheridan (1751-1816) ... [Read More]
In earlier religions the spirit of time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heine (1797-1856) ... [Read More]
The childish go after outward pleasures. They walk into the net of widespread death. But the wise knowing immortality, seek not the stable among things which are unstable here
. Upanishads (c. B.C.800) ... [Read More]
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
Talmud (b.C. 400?-500?) ... [Read More]
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ... [Read More]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Buddha (B.C.568-488) ... [Read More]
Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) ... [Read More]
Her name is Health, she is the daughter of Exercise, who begot her Temperance. The rose blusheth on her cheeks, the sweetness of the morning breatheth from her lips; joy tempered with innocence and modesty, sparkleth in her eyes and from the cheerfulness of her heart she singeth as she walketh.
Akhenation? (B.C1375?) ... [Read More]
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant (1885-1981) ... [Read More]
The strictest laws sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Terence (B.C.185-159) ... [Read More]
Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others.
Goethe (1749-1832) ... [Read More]
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us the true progress is to know more and be more and to do more.
Lubbock (1834-1913) ... [Read More]
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightening, not to be measured by horse-power of the understanding.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Few things are impracticable in themselves. It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) ... [Read More]
All dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney ... [Read More]
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill ... [Read More]
Success is never final and failure is never fatal it’s courage that counts.
John Wooden ... [Read More]
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
La Rochefoucauld ... [Read More]
Strong hope is much greater stimulant than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche ... [Read More]
The ultimate test of management is performance.
Peter F. Drucker ... [Read More]
It is better to deserve honors and not have them then to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain ... [Read More]
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.
Victor Kiam ... [Read More]
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never over estimate your power to change others.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. ... [Read More]
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles ... [Read More]
Intuition is perception via the unconscious.
Carl G. Jung ... [Read More]
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright ... [Read More]
Trust yourself. You know more than you think.
Benjamin Spock ... [Read More]
O God give us serenity to accept what we can not change; courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) ... [Read More]
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not home and work.
De Maistre (1754-1821) ... [Read More]
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) ... [Read More]
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) ... [Read More]
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894) ... [Read More]
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Albert North Whitehead (1861-1947) ... [Read More]
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately (1787-1863) ... [Read More]
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years; but to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller (1839-1913) ... [Read More]
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) ... [Read More]
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen ... [Read More]
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson ... [Read More]
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) ... [Read More]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
From there to here and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
- Dr. Seuss ... [Read More]
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few want’s and to serve them one’s self.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Greed is fear itself in its ghoulish form.
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Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right.
- Henry Ford ... [Read More]
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is waste neither time or money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; and with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
- Zig Ziglar ... [Read More]
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James Baldwin ... [Read More]
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer ... [Read More]
It is not the death, it’s the dying that alarms me.
Montaigne (1533-1592) ... [Read More]
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- Dave Brinkley ... [Read More]
When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus (55-117 A. D.) ... [Read More]
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes ... [Read More]
I know the price of success dedication, hard work and devotion to things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright ... [Read More]
Perfect freedom is necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) ... [Read More]
It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
- Havelock Ellis ... [Read More]
Patriotism, applies to true love of one’s country and a code of conduct that echoes such love.
- Howard Fast ... [Read More]
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
- Jonas Salk ... [Read More]
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Voltaire (1694-1778) ... [Read More]
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein ... [Read More]
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis l' Amour ... [Read More]
A secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
- Pearl S. Buck ... [Read More]
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Alva Edison ... [Read More]
There is no worse torture than the torture of laws.
Bacon (1561-1626) ... [Read More]
Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
William Garrison (1805-1879) ... [Read More]
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... [Read More]
Success consist of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill ... [Read More]
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill ( 1806-1873) ... [Read More]
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein ... [Read More]
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) ... [Read More]
Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) ... [Read More]
We should manage our fortune as we do our health enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) ... [Read More]
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) ... [Read More]
Genius is the power of lighting one’s own fire.
John Foster (1770-1843) ... [Read More]
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
Bovee (1820-1904) ... [Read More]
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Epictetus (50-138 A.D.) ... [Read More]
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Nietzsche (1844-1900) ... [Read More]
A man’s wisdom is his best friend folly, his worst enemy.
William Temple (1628-1699) ... [Read More]
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... [Read More]
Talent is what you possess genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley (born 1898) ... [Read More]
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Thoreau (1817-1862) ... [Read More]
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Surgeon (1834-1892) ... [Read More]
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us, to talk about the rest of us.
Edward Hoch (1849-1925) ... [Read More]
Three grand essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Addison(1672-1719) ... [Read More]
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) ... [Read More]
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ... [Read More]
One fool can ask more questions in a minute then twelve wise men can answer in an hour.
Nikolai Lenin (1870-1924) ... [Read More]
Be it jewel or toy, Not the prize gives the joy, but the striving for the prize.
Owen Meredith (1831-1891) ... [Read More]
It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Surgeon (1834-1892) ... [Read More]
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour.
Catullus (B.C.84?-54?) ... [Read More]
Science is the tool of the Western mind, and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
C. G. Jung (1875-1961) ... [Read More]
I am the captain of my soul I rule it with stern joy and, yet I think I had more fun, when I was a cabin boy.
Keith Preston ... [Read More]
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves.
Confucius (B.C.551-479) ... [Read More]
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) ... [Read More]
Equality is what does not exist among equals.
Edward Estlin Cummings ... [Read More]
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus (50-138A.D.) ... [Read More]
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsey Clark ... [Read More]
This is virgin territory for whorehouses.
Al Capone ... [Read More]
There’s a hope for every woe, and a balm for ever pain, But the first joys of our heart, come never back again.
Robert Gilfillan (1798-1850) ... [Read More]
Sound health is the greatest gift contentedness the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities; enlightenment, the greatest happiness.
Buddha (B.C.568-488) ... [Read More]
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
C. P. Snow (1905-1980) ... [Read More]
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
Manly P. Hall (born 1901) ... [Read More]
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation which is the easiest and third by experience which is the bitterest.
Confucius ( B.C. 551-479) ... [Read More]
Success has always been easy to measure it is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
- Michael Korda ... [Read More]
The only limits to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt ... [Read More]
Democracy arose from men thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
Aristotle ( B.C. 384-322) ... [Read More]
For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... [Read More]
In youth we learn, in old age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ... [Read More]
I’ve always been in the right place at the right time. Of course, I steered myself there.
- Bob Hope ... [Read More]
The chief factor in any man’s success or failure must be his. own character
- Theodore Roosevelt. ... [Read More]
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977) ... [Read More]
Anger is never without reason, but seldom without a good one.
- Benjamin Franklin ... [Read More]
Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.
- Lee Iacocca ... [Read More]
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increase man’s ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events
. Laurence J. Peter (born 1919) ... [Read More]
Most people ask for happiness on condition. happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.
- Arthur Rubinstein ... [Read More]
Our liberty depends on freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ... [Read More]
In the moment you carry this conviction, is that moment your dreams will become reality.
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Life is the soul’s nursery, it’s the training place for the destinies of eternity.
William Makepeace Thackray (1811-1863) ... [Read More]
Good intentions are no substitution for action; failure usually follows the path of least persistence.
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Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Heywood ... [Read More]
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below.
Addison ( 1672-1719) ... [Read More]
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt ... [Read More]
Good, better, best never let it rest, till your good is better and your better is best.
St. Jerome ... [Read More]
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth.
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) ... [Read More]
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- Dale Carnegie ... [Read More]
There is however a true music of nature, the song of birds, the whisper of leaves, the ripple of waters upon a sandy shore, the wail of wind or sea.
Lubbock (1834-1913) ... [Read More]
Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live.
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James B. Conant (1893-1978) ... [Read More]
We fall into the trap, we set for ourselves.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Tacitus (55-117 A.D.) ... [Read More]
The great are those who attempt the difficult things which lesser men avoid.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Thoreau (1817-1862 ) ... [Read More]
I can give you a six-word formula for success think things through, then follow through.
Edward Rickenbacker (1890-1973) ... [Read More]
It is a descending stream of pure activity which is the dynamic force of the universe.
Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700?A.D.) ... [Read More]
My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
Diane Arbus ... [Read More]
Liberty is the collective body, what health is to the individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Bolingbroke (1678-1751) ... [Read More]
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar (1864-1930) ... [Read More]
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion and desire.
Aristotle (B. C. 384-322) ... [Read More]
Scrutinize the mystery underlying all things. Seek in higher dimensions of understanding a meaning behind all sufferings. Unmask what appears to be the caprice of human destiny. How we long to become that which we hardly believe we are.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916) ... [Read More]
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) ... [Read More]
Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ... [Read More]
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
– Reinhold Niebuhr ... [Read More]
Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
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Laugh when you can, apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change. Kiss slowly, play hard, love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy.
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Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha ... [Read More]
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
– Dr. Seuss ... [Read More]
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
Dalai Lama ... [Read More]
Men love to wonder, and that is the seeds of science.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
– Mahatma Gandhi ... [Read More]
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates ... [Read More]
Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
– Martin Luther King, Jr. ... [Read More]
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakens.
– Carl Jung ... [Read More]
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
— Mahatma Gandhi ... [Read More]
Define your life aims
Keys to a Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of Neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the maximum ... [Read More]
Conserve and Concentrate Chi
Conserve and concentrate Chi ... [Read More]
Learn how to convert your knowledge into wisdom.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of Neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Stop dreaming; be here now.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Breathe consciously.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Control the Horse (emotions), care for the Carriage (body), awaken the Driver (intellect) and discover the Master (higher self).
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Substitute intentional doing for accidental happening
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Do only what is necessary, avoid needless karma.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of Neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Maintain a watchman at the gate of impressions.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
In activities learn to see the play of the three forces. affirming, denying and reconciling.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Believe nothing; test everything.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Distinguish between the higher will and the lower wills.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Strength exerted gives more strength weakness indulged gives greater weakness.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of Neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Separate from all the manifestations of your machine.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the ... [Read More]
Distinguish the quality of essence from that of the persona.
Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that condense the maximum amount of ... [Read More]
Stand on the bank of time’s river and watch the flow.
Keys to the Meaningful Life Excerpts from Robert S. de Ropp "Self Completion". Aphorisms of neo-gnostics are brief sayings that ... [Read More]
Twelve Riches of Life
A positive mental attitudeTrue friendshipNature's handiworkLabor of one's choiceHarmony of home relationshipsSound physical healthFreedom from ... [Read More]
Soon as you’ve got it, you’ve had it.
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To talk goodness is not good, only to do is.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Johnson (1709-1784) ... [Read More]
True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before your eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.
Terence (B.C.185-159) ... [Read More]
The discovery of what is true and the practice of what is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
Voltaire (1694-1778) ... [Read More]
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) ... [Read More]
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James (1842-1910) ... [Read More]
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
Words are the only things that last forever.
Hazlitt (1778-1830) ... [Read More]
Life is divided into three terms that which was, which is and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present and from the present to live better in the future
Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... [Read More]
Perfect wisdom has four parts Wisdom the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Plato (B.C. 427?-347?) ... [Read More]
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all of the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Bergen Evans (born 1904) ... [Read More]
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) ... [Read More]
Volatility of words is carelessness in action words are the wings of actions.
Lavater (1741-1801) ... [Read More]
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More (1745-1833) ... [Read More]
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) ... [Read More]
Happiness is not a reward it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) ... [Read More]
Water and words, easy to pour impossible to recover.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Have patience and endure this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.) ... [Read More]
It is best to bear what can’t be altered.
Seneca ( B.C. 3-65 A.D.) ... [Read More]
The world is full of poetry, the air is living with it’s spirit, the waves dance to the music of its melodies and sparkle in its brightness.
James Percival (1795-1856) ... [Read More]
Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
Colton (1780-1832) ... [Read More]
The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss
Young (1683-1765) ... [Read More]
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Cicreo (B.C106-43) ... [Read More]
Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
Finley P. Dunne (1867-1936) ... [Read More]
Anyone can be angry, that’s easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy.
Aristotle (B.C. 384-322) ... [Read More]
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
Patanjali (B.C. 500?) ... [Read More]
Luck is tenacity of purpose.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) ... [Read More]
An angry man is angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus (B.C.. 42?) ... [Read More]
What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) ... [Read More]
Tranquil pleasures last the longest, we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
Beecher (1813-1878) ... [Read More]
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song and all about you be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail?
Navajo Song ... [Read More]
His high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright.
Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... [Read More]
Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Pascal (1623-1662) ... [Read More]
By the streets of “by and by”, one arrives at the house of “never”.
Cervantes (1547-1616) ... [Read More]
Those who know do not talk, those who talk do not know, keep your mouth closed, guard your senses, temper your sharpness, simplify your problems, mask your brightness, be at one with the dust of the earth, this is a primal union, he who has achieved this state is unconcerned with friends and enemies, with good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.
Lao- Tzu (B.C.600?) ... [Read More]
Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and the bored.
Byron (1788-1824) ... [Read More]
Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
An enterprise, when fairly once begun, should not be left till all that ought is won.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Thomas Fuller ... [Read More]
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Burke (1729-1797) ... [Read More]
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree and endless in duration.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
French Proverb ... [Read More]
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok ... [Read More]
Men’s judgements are a parcel of their fortunes and things outward do draw the inward quality after them.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
After learning the tricks of the trade, many of us think we know the trade.
William Feather ... [Read More]
Do not tell me how hard you work, tell me how much you get done.
James J. Ling ... [Read More]
Success is identified goals, maintained direction, determined effort and necessary sacrifice.
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When someone gets something for nothing, someone else gets nothing for something.
. Anon ... [Read More]
Realize the dominating thoughts of your mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) ... [Read More]
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius (121-180A.D.) ... [Read More]
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Thoreau (1817-1862) ... [Read More]
The way of the superior man is threefold. Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; Wise, is free of perplexities, Bold, he is free of fear.
Confucius B.C. 551-479) ... [Read More]
A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The oceans is made up of ting drops of water. Even so life is but and endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts and the consequences whether good or bad of the least of them are far-reaching.
. Sivananda (born 1887) ... [Read More]
What is justice? To give every man his own.
Aristotle (B.C.384-322) ... [Read More]
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
- Ann Landers ... [Read More]
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
- Confucius Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln ... [Read More]
The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
Bovee (1820-1904) ... [Read More]
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vincent T. Lombardi ... [Read More]
Everybody dies but, not everybody lives.
- anon ... [Read More]
The ancient oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks, because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.
Socrates (B.C.469-399) ... [Read More]
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus (50-138 A.D.) ... [Read More]
Learning is weightless, treasure you always carry easily.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
All things I really like to do are immoral, illegal or fattening.
Alexander Woolcott (1887-1943) ... [Read More]
What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone (1714-1763) ... [Read More]
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle (B.C. 384-322) ... [Read More]
Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) ... [Read More]
Life is a dream walking, death is a going home.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Teachers open the door, you enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Strange, is it not? That the myriads who before us passed the door of darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the road which to discover we must travel to.
Omar Khayyam (1100) ... [Read More]
Man is as he believes.
Chekov (1860-1904) ... [Read More]
Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
Gurdjieff (1873-1949) ... [Read More]
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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 A.D.) ... [Read More]
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Take a second look, it costs you nothing.
Chinese Proverb ... [Read More]
Men were born with two eyes, but one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) ... [Read More]
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
Disraeli (1803-1881) ... [Read More]
Behind every fortune is a great crime.
Honore de Balzac ... [Read More]
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran (1750-1817) ... [Read More]
If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.
Japanese Proverb ... [Read More]
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Eric Hoffer ... [Read More]
It’s all in the question; no question about it.
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If you wish in this world to advance your merits you’re bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet or trust me you haven’t a chance.
William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) ... [Read More]
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden ... [Read More]
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity; and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
Theodore Roosevelt (1838-1919) ... [Read More]
Success has always been easy to measure. It’s the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda ... [Read More]
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And, there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
G. B. Shaw (1856-1950) ... [Read More]
Who let the greedy in? Who let the needy out? Joni Mitchell song title “Banquet”.
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A little ray of light shinning through,
Simply Red ... [Read More]
All the gang of those who rule us, hope our quarrels never stop, helping them to split and fool us, just so they can remain on top.
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