202 quotes in this category
"The wise man reads both books and life itself."
"There's no coming to consciousness without pain"
"The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority."
"Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned."
"Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey."
"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works."
"The problem happens when we have multiple desires. When we have fuzzy desires. When we want to do ten different things and we're not clear about which is the one we care about."
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
"What people need and what they want may be very different."
"What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong."
"You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you."
"The enemy is a very good teacher."
"To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation."
"Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest."
"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
"No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way."
"When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think."
"From error to error one discovers the entire truth."
"You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects."
"The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy."
"an action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure. "
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
"To find yourself, think for yourself."
"Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people."
"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together."
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
"Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone else to accomplish."
"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions."
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."