Meditation Quotes

Facts are stubborn things.

You can get help from teachers,

but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself,

sitting alone in a room.

We are wiser than we know.

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Regarding marriage,

it somehow,

it didn't happen.

One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

What gets measured gets managed.

I’ve failed over and over again in my life.

That is why I succeed.

If you are out to describe the truth,

leave elegance to the tailor.

I’m very proud of my net worth.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for

the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact.

When it is said that the institution exists,

and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way,

I can understand and appreciate the saying.

Be miserable

Or motivate yourself.

Whatever has to be done,

it's always your choice.

Don’t set goals based on what you can do;

set them based on what you can become.

Be unapologetically yourself;

that’s the only way to truly shine.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old,

but of the natural.

It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals,

they seem so absurd and impractical.

Yet I cling to them.

Happiness is beneficial for the body,

but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Until we get equality in education,

we won’t have an equal society.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure,

one cannot aspire enough for success.