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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my
life, what I want and what read more
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my
life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.
The ends must justify the means.
The ends must justify the means.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to
reflect alone upon what read more
The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to
reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own
opinions, and value others' that deserve it.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
The fates lead him who will-him who won't they drag.
Conscience is a man's compass.
Conscience is a man's compass.
