Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
Wisdom Quotes That Will Change Your Perspective - page 61
What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.
Arjuna Ardagh
If we wish to ensure everyone’s peace and happiness we need to cultivate a healthy respect for the diversity of our peoples and cultures, founded on an understanding of this fundamental sameness of all human beings
Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose and I generally say I don’t play one so I don’t have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.
Steve Carell
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?
Russell Lynes
As you do not sweeten your mouth by saying honey, so you do not grow virtuous by merely talking of virtue.
Ivan Panin
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Francisco Goya
Be not ashamed to confess that you have been in the wrong. It is but owning that you now have more sense than you had before, to see your error; more humility to acknowledge it; more grace to correct it.
Jeremiah Seed
Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.
Nirmala Srivastava
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat.
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
