Deep Thoughts

I use a Random Quote plugin to generate the Smart Thoughts you see in the sidebar on this blog. Below is the entire list of those:?

Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away.

During my youth, Love will be my teacher – in middle age, my help – and in old age, my delight.

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life – he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Past the seeker as he prayed, came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them…he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?…God said, I did do something. I made you.

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: The last of his freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face…You must do the thing you cannot do.

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched . . . but are felt in the heart.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

Do not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.

God created man because he loves stories.

A disciple once complained, ‘You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us.’ The master replied, ‘How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and chewed it up for you before giving it to you?’

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

We really don’t learn anything from our experience. We only learn from reflecting on our experience.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

You must give time to your fellow men — even if it’s a little thing, do something for others — something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Teachers are those who use themselves as bridges, over which they invite their students to cross – then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.