To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
Seneca The YoungerRead
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
It all comes from the mind. I've seen the most incredible success stories because a person had a dream and it was so powerful no one could touch it. He'd feel it, believe it, think about it all day and night. That would inspire him to do things necessary to get the results he wanted.
I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.
Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
What is a fine person or a beauteous face,_x000D_ _x000D_ Unless deportment give them decent grace;_x000D_ _x000D_ Blessed with all other requisites to please,_x000D_ _x000D_ To want the striking elegance of ease;_x000D_ _x000D_ Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill_x000D_ _x000D_ Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we're safe in our own paradise.
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