It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
May SartonRead
Topic
5,083 quotes
It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Don’t let a day go by without asking who you are…each time you let a new ingredient to enter your awareness.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
The good man is the friend of all living things.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.