This too shall pass Pain, you have to go through it, you can try to outrun it, but

life always makes more Its not about how hard you hit. Its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Thats how winning is done. If you know what you're worth go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers and saying you're not where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody, cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that. I'm looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done No longer do we simply go for what we want. Instead we waste time seeking approval from others in the pursuit of our goals. Modern society has dictated that we should never offend or make anybody feel uncomfortable with our actions. If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, then stop accepting crap and demand something more What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though chequered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his. People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned You can't test courage cautiously A problem well stated is a problem half solved We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men Who find it easier to live in a world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration, it's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment. The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of "physical reality" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means. It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final. We must always be ready to change these notions. You never see things as they are, you see them as you are Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most Never forget, I came from nothing, and as much as I love all the toys, I really dont need them The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity Control is an interesting thing, sometimes you dont realise how little of it you have until you have none at all No matter what one does, whether one's deeds serve virtue or vice, nothing lacks importance. All actions bear a kind of fruit You create your opportunities by asking for them There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, its time to pause and reflect Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination Reality is negotiable, all rules can be bent or broken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field Reality is merely and illusion, albeit a very persistent one The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool I cant give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. Everything popular is wrong Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes Look at what your idea of success would be. The more that you take in external motivators, the more it reduces your ultimate satisfaction because it doesn't come from inside. The wisest men follow their own direction It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only dream, but also believe. Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. You always pass failure on the way to success

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch We lift ourselves by our THOUGHT; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything Man is what he believes Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in

accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself. Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. The entire universe is my body, I need not be afraid of it It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are, What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself Many a false step was made by standing still Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fares, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" Theres no difference between the pessimist who says, Oh, its hopeless, so dont bother doing anything, and an optimist who says, Dont bother doing anything, its going to turn out fine anyway. Either way, nothing happens. Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No

more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now! Not tomorrow! Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away It is vain to do with more what can be done with less Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organisations habitually engage in only because they can not actually masturbate. People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they dont realise how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality, or justice, or anything. If youre a man, you take it The true traveller is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death Genius is only superior power in seeing Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time. Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them They can do all because they think they can

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite.

No one else is the authority on your potential, youre the only person that decides how far you go and what YOURE capable of The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself Man is born to live, not to prepare for life What you cannot enforce, do not command Dare to be yourself A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them A man who wants nothing is invincible I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one Real strength is not just a condition of one's muscle, but a tenderness in one's spirit Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Before you open your mouth to speak, please make sure it's an improvement upon the silence. There are two rules to success in life: 1. Don't tell people everything you know. Work to become, not to acquire. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; Seek what they sought. There is more to life than increasing its speed.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. A wise man learns more from a fool than a fool does from a wise man. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want.

i am not here merely to make a living. i am here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. i am here to enrich the world. Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. One must desire something to be alive. Frankly, Im suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue. Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Do or do not. There is no try Never make a defence or an apology until you are accused. I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. It is better to wear out than to rust out Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose. The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold. Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. A man can do all things if he but wills them. To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic Life is no brief torch for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Sure I am that this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond my endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. Victory belongs to the person with the strongest reality and the most decisive actions The strong live off the weak, and the clever live off the strong I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. In order to fly at the speed of thought to any destination you choose, you have to start by believing that you have already arrived. Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up An error doesnt become a mistake until you refuse to correct it Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability World-class success requires that you grow up emotionally and come to terms with the fact that life isn't fair and success isn't free. You can be the most positive thinker in the world but you still have to pay the price every great achiever has paid. There is no way out of the blood sweat and tears. You will pay the price or be forced to accept the fact that you had a shot at your vision and let it slip away. It's the price of all out massive action or a lifetime of regret The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. Everyone has two choices. We're either full of love....or full of fear. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death People will forget what you said. People will even forget what you did. But people will NEVER forget how you made them feel. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst. Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets. The first law of success is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued He who would leap high must take a long run Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. First they will ignore you, then they will laugh at you, then they will fight you, then you will win The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation. The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. This above all: to your own self be true. Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out who you are; seek to determine who you want to be One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them Each body has its art No one forgives with more grace and love than a child What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

So you see imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for People act according to the situation not according to their character or disposition - think guards and prisoner experiment Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires sooner or later always leads to bitter disappointment.

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly Adventure is just bad planning The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite Merit can be bought, passion cant I dwell in possibility... Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubborn persistent illusion The concept of time derives from the fact that we divide reality into bits and pieces. In so doing, we create a subject and an object with a space between. We experience these objects, these aspects of reality, in a piecemeal manner and thus create a linear succession in time. The spaceless infinite removes the space between subject and object; the timeless now removes linear succession. Instead of knowing the Universe from a distance, the Self knows the Universe by being it, without need of space and time

Mind does not observe the past; it creates it. The past is only as real as we make it Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Set clear goals and standards for each person. What gets measured gets done.

When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars The most terrifying thing to do is to love and accept yourself completely, right now. Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. It is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of one and the same thing. There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off! Take what you can use and let the rest go by Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done The knower is ever greater than the known, and the seer is greater than the seen. That which is known is contained within the knower, and that which is seen is in the seer; the vast expanse of the sky is in the mind, not outside, because the mind is everywhere and there is no outside to it I had come to suspect, and now felt compelled to acknowledge, that science and the physical world were products of human imagining; that we were not the cool observers of that world, but its passionate creators. We were all poets and the world was our metaphor Both the ancient Hindu philosophies and quantum physics teach that an infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden behind the illusion of ceaseless change

Physicist Alain Aspect and his collaborators not only proved nonlocality, but also confirmed the existence of a transcendent domain beyond the material domain of spacetime. This is in direct contradiction to the one-material-world assumption of material realism and is in direct support of transcendence found in all spiritual traditions Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists. Reason should direct and appetite obey Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterward We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released. We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth The question should be, is it worth trying to do? not, can it be done? To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional

Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home Somethings that dont happen prevent a disaster from happening We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse