It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life
To make good use of what you have and to let go of what you do not use is to live in a contented way.
The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
Whatever you give comes back to you. Whatever you take will not stay with you.
If you develop your sense of self-respect, then regard will follow you like your shadow.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
When others are at their lowest ebb you will restore their self-belief by keeping a clear vision of their goodness and specialities.
Only they who fulfil their duty in everyday matters will fulfil them on great
occasions.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.
The soul is healed by being with children.
The two most common reasons for losing are: not knowing you're competing in the
first place, and not knowing with whom you really are competing.
Faith makes things possible, it does not make them easy.
