Friend Quotes

In the midst of chaos,

there is also opportunity.

Mama was my greatest teacher a teacher of compassion love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations,

she has to equip herself.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Learning how to be still,

to really be still and let life happen

that stillness becomes a radiance.

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

Our faith comes in moments;

our vice is habitual.

I think and think for months and years.

Ninety nine times,

the conclusion is false.

The hundredth time I am right.

Laws control the lesser man...

Right conduct controls the greater one.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well

being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

I have a very strong work ethic.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

I like thinking big.

If you’re going to be thinking anything,

you might as well think big.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.

It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving

an existing one.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Few things are harder to put up with than

the annoyance of a good example.