Inspirational Quotes - Page 594

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Prescription: Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Decide what you want out of a situation. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” — to work for and hope for.

It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.

A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the same exact first human words: "We love you and support you on the journey." At their final celebration, everyone hugs them and repeats the phrase again.