Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Find at least one enemy to keep you alert.
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.
The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
You won't step on other's toes if you imagine yourself in their shoes.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in the long run it's truth that prevails.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.
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