If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful.
Inazō Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan
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The breeze of His grace is blowing night and day over thy head. Unfurl the sails of thy boat (mind) if thou wantest to make rapid progress through the ocean of life.
Sri Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna: His Life and Sayings
It is not the receiver that is blessed, but the giver. Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
Swami Vivekananda, Karma Yoga
…it is wonderful to think how few are the powers by which all the phenomena of nature are governed.
Michael Faraday, A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter
Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
Confucius, The Analects
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
Even in ordinary life the unselfish people are the happiest—those who work to make others happy, and who forget themselves.
Annie Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture
Below there may be storm, but above there is calm, and there is the Place of Peace.
Annie Besant, The Spiritual Life
…the best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise…
Andrew Carnegie, Wealth
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Teresa of Ávila, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let right deeds be Thy motive, not the fruit which comes from them. And live in action! Labour! Make thine acts Thy piety, casting all self aside…
Bhagavad Gita, The Song Celestial
Be humble, if thou would’st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
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Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
The best way to overcome the habit of Fear is to assume the mental attitude of Courage, just as the best way to get rid of darkness is to let in the light.
William Walker Atkinson, Thought Vibration, or The Law of Attraction in the Thought World
…whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism, do not let yourselves be discouraged by the sadness of certain hours which pass over nations.
Louis Pasteur, The Life of Pasteur
We learn wisdom from failure more than from success: we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and he who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
That key is your own self, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity.
Jiddu Krishnamurti, Dissolution of the Order of the Star
…a man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin
The world seems bright to me, and earth is often a real heaven—so happy I am and so thankful to the kind fates.
Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
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He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu, The Tao Teh King
The lover's ailment is different from all ailments ;
Rumi, Masnavi i Ma'navi
Love is a great thing, a good above all others, which alone maketh every heavy burden light, and equaliseth every inequality.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
…live as you go along. Do not wait until you have reached my years before you begin to enjoy anything of this life.
Russell H. Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
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