To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which you have even if you have nothing else.
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.
In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.
You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.
You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.
It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.
But that moment exists - a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.
No matter how many detours and adjustments it made, the caravan moved toward the same compass point. Once obstacles were overcome, it returned to its course, sighting on a star that indicated the location of the oasis.
Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.
Enjoy everything. Need nothing. Needing someone is the fastest way to kill a relationship .. The greatest gift you can give someone is the strength and the power not to need you, to need you for nothing.
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.
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