When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Live the life you've dreamed.
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