There must be a balance,—the balance of the head and the heart, the balance of power and wisdom, the balance of activity and repose.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made.
Nikola Tesla, My Inventions
The darkness of centuries is dispersed at once as soon as a light is brought into the room.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
Strength to step forward is the primary need of him who has chosen his path.
Mabel Collins, Through the Gates of Gold
Always say "yes" to the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Whoso shall offer Me in faith and love A leaf, a flower, a fruit, water poured forth, That offering I accept, lovingly made With pious will.
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel.
Meister Eckhart, Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Enter upon to-morrow with a clean slate and a free mind. Don't be mortgaged to the past, and never look back.
Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It
Do not take life too seriously—you will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard, The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard
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Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate new worlds of thought and experience.
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
There will come with the greater love of science greater love to one another.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and who obeys it: ideal of art, ideal of science, ideal of the gospel virtues, therein lie the springs of great thoughts and great actions; they all reflect light from the Infinite.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
You cannot study anything persistently for years without becoming learned, and although I would not hold reputation up to you as a very high object of ambition, it is a wayside flower which you are sure to have catch at your skirts.
Maria Mitchell, Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals
You can cultivate courage and increase it at every minute and hour of the day.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
Be here now.
Ram Dass, Be Here Now
…the perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
…mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him Who, we know, loves us.
Teresa of Ávila, The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein, What I Believe
Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water.
Prentice Mulford, Your Forces, and How to Use Them
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
…one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts…
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh