Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
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Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
The sun is up, the sky is blue It's beautiful, and so are you.
You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.
Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.
All stress comes from resisting what is.
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.
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