If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.
God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Don’t be scared to fly high, ’cause it will inspire others.
I grind and I graft, but I will make sure that I get that time off here and there to unwind and relax and have a life.
A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.
In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’
This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.
