We are prisoners of ideas.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
The more experiments you make the better.
Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
The sense of an entailed disadvantage – the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite. But in the rarer sort, who presently see their own frustrated claim as one among a myriad, the inexorable sorrow takes the form of fellowship and makes the imagination tender.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
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