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The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. (Matthew 6:34)
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)
And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. (Luke 2:47)
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding. (Philippians, 4:7)
Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people? (Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:9)
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.
Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything.
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
I did not direct my life. I didn?t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That?s what life is.
Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it.
If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong.
A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made
Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
A lie never lives to be old.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Without labor nothing prospers.
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Ambition is an idol, on whose wi
Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Understanding is the wages of faith.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh
Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords
Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
Children are the keys of paradise.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. (Matthew 6:34)

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)

And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. (Luke 2:47)

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding. (Philippians, 4:7)

Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil; for who can govern this your great people? (Hebrew, 1 Kings 3:9)

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of lust, hatred, greed, selfishness, and jealousy. Then only you can manifest it externally. Then only, those who come in contact with you, will be benefited by your vibrations of peace and harmony.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom;you will have everything.

Will is the dynamic soul-force.

I did not direct my life. I didn?t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That?s what life is.

Change can take place only when liberal and radical pressures are both strong. Intelligent liberals have always recognized the debt they owe to radicals, whose existence permits liberals to push further than they would otherwise have dared, all the while posing as compromisers and mediators. Radicals, however, have been somewhat less sensible of their debt to liberals, partly because of the rather single-minded discipline radicals are almost forced to maintain, plagued as they always are by liberal backsliding and timidity on the one hand and various forms of self-destructiveness and romantic posing on the other.... Liberal reforms and radical change are thus complementary rather than antagonistic. Together they make it possible continually to test the limits of what can be done. Liberals never know whether the door is unlocked because they are afraid to try it. Radicals, on the other hand, miss many opportunities for small advances because they are unwilling to settle for so little.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it.

If at first you don't succeed, you must be doing something wrong.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Age that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bore. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Marriage: a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two.

One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

A lie never lives to be old.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wi

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster keeps still.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh

Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I cannot give advice. How can I when I do not authorise success. I authorise it alright. Smile.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Many people have the ambition to succeed in their work; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords

Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.