Ghanaian Proverb
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
As physicians, we are invited into the most intimate chambers of our patients’ lives. We should acknowledge that unfettered trust with dignity, deference, and respect. For a physician, caring for patients is not only a duty; it is a privilege. Alleviating pain and restoring health for another human being can induce an exhilaration few others experience in their careers.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Love doesn't make the world go'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
I love you for what you are, but I love you yet more for what you are going to be. I love you not so much for your realities as for your ideals. I pray for your desires that they may be great, rather than for your satisfactions, which may be so hazardously little. You are going forward toward something great. I am on the way with you, and therefore I love you.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
May the Force be with you.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go ?
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
I don't like your manners.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
I want to be alone.
You create your reality.
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Do we really know anybody ? Who does not wear a face to hide another ?
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Love is the history of a woman's life, it is an episode in man's.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
They are able because they think they are able.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
There's no crying in baseball !
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I'll be back.
If you love someone, set them free.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
You aren't too bright. I like that in a man.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All-righty then !
You're as old as you behave.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Love is my religion, I could die for it.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Give all to love.
Union gives strength.
It's never too late.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
None are homely who smile.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.