To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.
Silence will speak If given an ear; Stillness is the movement Of our atmosphere; Circles have sides When we draw the line; Death is sleep In limited time.
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Let us be sure that the lady of our choice possesses certain tangible qualities that we admire; and if in other ways she falls short of our ideal, we must be patient and call to mind those qualities that first induced us to begin our courting.
the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger.
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.
Desire is the seed of potential.
CAN is the enemy of DO.
Only be rebellious for good reasons.
... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.
A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.
I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
Only those who row the boat make waves
The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.
There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.
