Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.
Spirituality Quotes
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
— Aesop
As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
With age comes wisdom and a high sex drive. And the wisdom to enjoy it.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
We make our own fortunes and we call them fate.
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
— Laozi
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it goes on flying anyway.
Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless. Heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful die not. The heedless are as if already dead.
The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakes.
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Meditation brings wisdom, lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Think how hard physics would be if particles could think.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
I took a speed-reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.
Things do not change; we change.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
— Molière
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.