Amma

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

I attribute whatever I may have been able to accomplish in life far more to my wife than to anything else and to everything else put together. But I cannot flatter myself that I found her because I was a ‘good picker’, I believe profoundly that we are guided, led, in such momentous matters.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

There’s a part of me I can’t get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once, I’ll never be the same.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

If the people really set their minds on anything it is impossible to prevent their getting what they want.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!