All Quotes in Wisdom & Philosophy
“Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“The beginning is always today.”
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.”
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“This too shall pass”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
“Enough is a feast.”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“We are our grandmothers' prayers. We are our grandfathers' dreamings.”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.”
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
“Though much is taken, much abides.”
“I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.”
“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.”