Do or do not. There is no try.
Ready are you? What know you of ready?
PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are a different game you should play.
All his life has he looked away to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
Named must your fear be before banish it you can.
They must first judge themselves, that presume to censure others: And such will not be apt to overshoot the Mark. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by Love and Information. And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the [Laurel]. If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
If you are good, life is good.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Be present in all things and thankful for all things.
The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life’s sorrows.
We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
