Meditation Quotes

For unflagging interest and enjoyment,

a household of children,

if things go reasonably well,

certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

The less effort,

the faster and more powerful you will be.

We all live with the objective of being happy;

our lives are all different and yet the same.

The leading rule for the lawyer,

as for the man of every calling,

is diligence.

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.

That must be maintained,

for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you,

or a man into voting for you,

try it till you are satisfied.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Predicting rain doesn’t count.

Building arks does.

Adapt what is useful,

reject what is useless,

and add what is specifically your own.

My mother would look at me and say,

‘Kamala,

you may be the first to do many things,

but make sure you’re not the last.’

A table,

a chair,

a bowl of fruit and a violin;

what else does a man need to be happy?

I found there was only one way to look thin:

hang out with fat people.

Liberty cannot be established without morality,

nor morality without faith.

The problem of the twentieth century is

the problem of the color line.

Don't be trapped by dogma.

Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature,

nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

No man is good enough to govern another man

without the other's consent.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.

Fail at it.

Try again.

Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble,

those who never mount the high wire,

This is your moment,

Own it.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither.

A society that puts freedom before equality

will get a high degree of both.