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Wisdom is so kind and wise that wherever you may look you can learn something about God. Why would not the omnipresent teach that way?
It is the Way of Heaven not to strive, and yet it knows how to overcome; not to speak, and yet it knows how to win a response.
The subject on which I meditate is truth. The practice to which I devote myself is truth. The topic of my conversation is truth. My thoughts are always in the truth. For lo! My self has become the truth.
Great minds are like eagles, and build their nests in some lofty solitude.
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.
God hath framed the mind of man as a mirror of glass, capable of the image of the universal world, and joyful to receive the impression thereof, as the eye joyeth to receive light.
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.
While they dream, they do not know that they are dreaming.
To be happy, to possess eternal life, to be in God, to be saved — all these are the same. All alike mean the solution of the problem, the aim of existence. And happiness is cumulative, as misery may be. An eternal growth is an unchangeable peace, an ever more profounder depth of understanding, a possession constantly more intense and more spiritual with the joy of heaven — this is happiness. Happiness has no limits.
Fortune dreads the brave.
Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.
Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.
The characteristic of heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts… But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Life is not happening to you, it unfolds as it does… for you.
The thing about our choices is that after we have made them, they turn around and make us.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.
What you are looking for is what is looking.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you dwell in poverty, and you are poverty.
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
No longer able to laugh or to talk at all, changeable mind is finished, beyond recall!
