Autumn leaves that fall in the mountains, with no one to see them, are like brocade in the dark of night.
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words;Watch your words, they become your actions;Watch your actions, they become your habits;Watch your habits, they become your character;Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,While loving someone deeply gives you courage.”“Knowing others is intelligence;Knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength;Mastering yourself is true power.”“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others.Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval.Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”“If you are depressed you are living in the past.If you are anxious you are living in the future.If you are at peace you are living in the present.”“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”“Be content with what you have;Rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,The whole world belongs to you. Kindness in words creates confidence.Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.Kindness in giving creates love”
Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Senator boni viri, senatus autem bestia evil
Senators are good men, but the Senate is a bad beast
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine;—they are the life, the soul of reading;—take them out of this book for instance,—you might as well take the book along with them; [...] restore them to the writer;—he steps forth like a bridegroom,—bids All hail; brings in variety, and forbids appetite to fail.
Results = f($)
Agenda = f ($$$$)
Corruptions were primed most privileged but they were permitted by the passivity of the privileged.
Producing the dumbest form of socialism...
Socialized Risk
Privatized Benefit
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Hope is like a path in the country side. At first there is no path, but if enough people walk in the same direction the path appears.
In a universe whose size is beyond human imagining, where our world floats like a dust mote in the void of night, humans have grown inconceivably lonely.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient; nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.(To such heights of evil are men driven by religion)
The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Every Communist must grasp the truth, Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
(Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - The Little Red Book)
True understanding is to see the events of life in this way: 'You are here for by benefit, though rumor paints you otherwise.'"
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now if the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
All that is hateful in me, my daughter, proceeds from my lifetime of devotion to you.
Some people spend their whole lives working at jobs they hate with the dream of someday retiring so they can sit their old butt on the beach and relax. You can quit school right now and just go sit on the beach; it's free. The reason to study hard and work even harder is so that someday you can find something in life that's better and more rewarding than warm sand.
We commit to the work of reconciling race, one day at a time, because we follow the one who rightly orders love, who holds all things together, and who promises authentic reconciliation that God alone can accomplish.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines! Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover!
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
