Top 50 quotes of today
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
The object of the superior man is truth.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
