If you have a strong mind,|and plant in it a firm resolve,|you can change your destiny.
—Unknown
The exception proves the rule.
—Common Proverb
When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)
Intelligent people have a remarkable ability to rationalize irrational actions, to re-tell history to fit their preferred, comfortable narrative.
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)
Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
—William O. Douglas (American Judge)
You are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
—Hugh Prather (American Christian Author)
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
—Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (British Military Leader)
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
—Plotinus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)
Brood less, smile more and serve all.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)
To give love is true freedom; to demand love is pure slavery.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)
The more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. That man who seeks to learn more of his craft shall be richly rewarded.
—George Samuel Clason (American Businessperson)
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
—James A. Michener (American Novelist)
Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.
—Bill Gates (American Businessperson)
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (French Writer)
If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
—Thomas Merton (French-born American Clergyman)
Everybody exists. It is only the few who live.|To live, you should have an ideal.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)