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Whatever we are waiting for peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance ? it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. 
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. 
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. 
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. 
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts 
Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least. 
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence 
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. 
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. 
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. 
A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. 
Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. 
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. 
Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time 
Courage is not living without fear. Courage is being scared to death and doing the right thing anyway. 
The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils 
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it. 
But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love - why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there 
Promise yourself to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 
Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally 
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings 
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. 
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. 
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near. 
Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. 
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. 
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. 
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. 
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.- 
The longer math lives the more abstract and therefore, possibly also the more practical it becomes. 
A man can't make a place for himself in the sun if he keeps taking refuge under the family tree 
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. 
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. 
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? 
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did 
The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. 
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. 
The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. 
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. 
Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. 
The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit. 
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. 
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. 
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. 
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression. 
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. 
