Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good is it to brood over the past and fret about the future? Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment. Live in harmony with the dharma. Make it the heart of your life and experience. Be the master of your own destiny.
—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhist Teacher)
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
—Demosthenes (Greek Statesman, Orator)
Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,—vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.
—Henry Fielding (English Novelist)
I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
—Charles M. Schulz (American Cartoonist)
The future is a convenient place for dreams.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
—Ulysses S. Grant (American Head of State)
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
The way to repay a teacher’s compassion and sympathy in teaching you is to apply yourself to learning your lessons well. Only then can you spread the good influence of those lessons to others.
—Thanissaro Bhikkhu (American Buddhist Monk)
To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.
—Petrarch (Italian Scholar)
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
—Francine du Plessix Gray (American Writer, Literary Critic)
There’s no great loss without some small gain.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder (American Author of Children’s Novels)
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)
No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
—Albert Schweitzer (French Theologian)
Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.
—Chanakya Neeti (Anthology of Indian Aphorisms)
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
—Jean Kerr (Irish-American Writer)