It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
If you cannot explain it simply, you dont understand it well enough
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; its the intention, not the face-value of the gift, thats weighed.
The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
Only when we find the quietness in our own minds can we begin to hear our inner teacher, so that we may receive some in-tuition. Only when we are ready to recognise and value the wisdom that we carry at the core of our being will we turn our attention inwards and 'listen in'. But it's been a long time since we truly listened, so a little practice and patience will be needed. Sit down, be quiet and listen in at some point today and you might be surprised at what you hear. Then do it again tomorrow. All you need to do is remember that you are the listener and not the noise.
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, and that change is continual in each one. … Now this connection of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, each created monad represents the whole universe.
