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The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
Sep 9, 2025
In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.
When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.
The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.
Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.
Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
After a storm comes a calm.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.
There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Good ball players make good citizens.
No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.