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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
—William James (American Philosopher)

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
—Menander

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
—Jimmy Fallon (American Comedian)

I’ve always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
—John Adams (American Head of State)

What are numbers knit|By force or custom? Man who man would be,|Must rule the empire of himself; in it|Must be supreme, establishing his throne|On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy|Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)

My effort should never be to undermine another’s faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
—George Soros (American Investor)

Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

I think the world really boils down to two types of people – those who see shapes in cloud formations, and those who just see clouds.
—Danzae Pace

One must be something, in order to do something.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest—at the command—of his head.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

It all comes down to this: if your subconscious “financial blueprint” is not “set’ for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become.
—James Allen

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
—Arthur Ashe (American Sportsperson)

Think twice before pointing a finger to any one as other three fingers are always pointing towards you.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
—Charlie Chaplin (British Actor)

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with—a man is what he makes of himself.
—Alexander Graham Bell (Scottish-born American Inventor)

Any man’s life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life—that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living.
—Booker T. Washington (American Educator)

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing—that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow’s obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child’s head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; no one who holds the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
—Walter Scott (Scottish Novelist)

We learn best from experience but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions.
—Peter Senge (American Management Consultant)

There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.
—Wallace Wattles (American New Thought Author)

There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
—Indira Gandhi (Indian Head of State)

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare to appear is work and promise of food and wages.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

Don’t fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all.
—Mignon McLaughlin (American Journalist)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
—George Washington (American Head of State)

Little friends may prove great friends.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
—Theodore Hesburgh (American Catholic Educator)

We do not know what to do with this short life, but we want another that will be eternal.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
—Jean de La Fontaine (French Poet)

His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
—Salvatore Satta

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
—John Quincy Adams (American Head of State)

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Silence is the mother of truth.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Those who know how to think need no teachers.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
—Abraham Maslow (American Psychologist)

We reproach people for talking about themselves, but it is the subject they treat best.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
—Isaac Asimov (Russian-born American Children’s Books Writer)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Whoever makes great presents expects great presents in return.
—Martial (Ancient Roman Latin Poet)

Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new economic necessities, will impose peace.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!
—Washington Irving (American Author)

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

When you are alone you are all your own.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one’s mind.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

Truth never damages a cause that is just.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
—Ramsay MacDonald (British Head of State)

Don’t put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)

In the depth of winter I finally learned there was inside me an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

In character, in manners, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)

Life is the sum of all your choices.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
—Robertson Davies (Canada Journalist)

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)

Service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian Philosopher)

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
—Leonardo da Vinci (Italian Polymath)

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
—Dante Alighieri (Italian Political leader)

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
—Carl Sandburg (American Children’s Books Writer)

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
—Unknown

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (German Philosopher, Scholar)

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain’t so.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
—Washington Irving (American Author)

Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.
—Ausonius (Latin Poet)

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)