Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
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Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
This is nothing !
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
No wire hangers, ever !
Success is predictable.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep, the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you.
From now on you will never be alone, even when we are separated, and even when death itself parts us, I shall remain with you.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate, before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The best proof of love is trust.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Love is a decision not an emotion or feeling, that if made from the heart will outlast anything.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It is always your next move.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone, when your heart still does.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
I see dead people.
Warriors, come out to play !
There is not a breathing of the common wind that will forget thee.
It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted.
As a writer, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories, and I give them money.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.