Inspirational Quotes - Page 590

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

Every vice has its excuse ready.

If I was 14 and knew some gay people, I wouldn't nearly have had the struggle I had. Our world is definitely changing.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are 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.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

If the coach cannot do it, he cannot 'teach' it-only talk about it.

If you are touched by music you are touched by love in a very pure way.

I live in L.A., so I go to basketball games. But I love baseball.

We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.

As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider.

Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.

When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.