Meditation Quotes

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self

gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

We aim above the mark

to hit the mark

I know I’m not the best

looking guy in the world,

but I’m a good person.

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than

the chances I didn’t take at all.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,

but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow;

there is no humor in Heaven.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain

too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

In skating over thin ice

our safety is in our speed.

We are rich only through what we give,

and poor only through what we refuse.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves

by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam

the door on potential opportunities.

We go through life walking a tightrope

to prevent too much disillusionment.

Music is the language of the spirit.

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.

The ultimate aim of the ego

is not to see something,

but to be something

I have not failed.

I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.