It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
When he was asked ‘What is a friend?' he said ‘One soul inhabiting two bodies.'
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
You can never get enough of what you don't really need to make you happy.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams...
I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
While we're awake, we share one universe, but in sleep we each turn away to a world of our own.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
For whatever it's worth, I am here to tell you that it IS possible. It is possible.
In dreams, we enter a world that's entirely our own.
To those who can dream, there is no such place as faraway.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.
Did everything just taste purple for a sec?
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
The heartbreak of the moment is not endless.
I am not a has-been. I am a will be.
"Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want the most."
You know those people who can predict when change is coming in their life? I'm not one of them. Change has a way of just walking up and punching me in the face.
Every little helps? A more realistic mantra is: If everyone does a little, we'll achieve only a little.
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.
What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.