Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect us.
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
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Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
To fight and conquer one hundred times is not the perfection of attainment, for the supreme art is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
The wise man considers well both advantage and disadvantage. He sees a way out of adversity, and on the day of victory to danger is not blind.
Sun Tzu, The Book of War
Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
It is a most evident truth, that our love for a person is greater, the more distinctly we remember the good he has done us.
Teresa of Ávila, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong there is nothing that can take precedence of it…
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
Never fear to be yourself. If Mental Science does not teach you to be yourself it teaches you nothing.
Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
The cultivation of tender feelings breeds considerate regard for the sufferings of others.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Knowest thou why thy mirror reflects not? Because the rust has not been scoured from its face.
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
As the same sugar is made into various figures of birds and beasts, so one sweet Mother Divine is worshipped in various climes and ages under various names and forms. Different creeds are but different paths to reach the Almighty.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
…the sufficiency of contentment is an enduring and unchanging sufficiency.
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
In its highest form, politeness almost approaches love.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
Epictetus, Enchiridion
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.
Confucius, The Analects
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
…very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations