To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.
Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
My philosophy is to “kill the monster while it’s little.” The best time to handle a “negative” emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It’s much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it’s full-blown.
Investment philosophy is the clear understanding that by owning shares of stocks, one owns businesses, not pieces of paper.
When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Never wait for tomorrow, what if tomorrow never comes?
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.