Inspirational Life quotes
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
"Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real." "Instead of asking 'what do I want from life?,' a more powerful question is, 'what does life want from me?'"
"Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence."
"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves."
"Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment."
"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life."
"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."
"Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality."
"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
"The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."
"You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around."
"I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there."
"Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am."
"I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily."
"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."
"He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."
"There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force."
