The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
