There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.
© Christopher Morley @quote
A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
© Thomas Carlyle @quote
Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish
© Ovid @quote
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
© Albert Einstein @quote
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it
© Pearl Buck @quote
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting
© Buddha @quote
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
© Carl Jung @quote
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own
© Lao Tzu @quote
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue
© Confucius @quote
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well
© John Marshall @quote
By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.
© Thich Nhat Hanh @quote
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect
© Joan Didion @quote
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be
© Socrates @quote
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows
© Buddha @quote
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your minds eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
© Napoleon Hill @quote
Go put your creed into the deed. Nor speak with double tongue.
© Ralph Emerson @quote
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
© Marcus Aurelius @quote
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it
© Ralph Emerson @quote
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
© Lao Tzu @quote
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
© Charles A. Lindbergh @quote