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Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real read more
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
The trouble you can get into, just cause you want 5, 000 bucks.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the read more
When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
