He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
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He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.
I have gathered a posy of other mens flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.
A picture is a poem without words
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.
Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable.
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