Meditation Quotes

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported?

This isn't a hobby;

it's a career.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym

and the resistance that you fight in life

can only build a strong character.

You make 'em,

I amuse 'em.

Old age is like everything else.

To make a success of it,

you've got to start young.

Decide what you want,

decide what you are willing to exchange for it.

Establish your priorities and go to work

H. L. Hunt

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,

even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

Heaven cannot brook two suns,

nor earth two masters.

Love is merely a madness,

and I tell you deserves as well a dark house

and a whip as madmen do.

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 are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Beauty is an outward gift,

which is seldom despised,

except by those to whom,

it has been refused.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world,

in various ways.

The point,

however,

is to change it.

When you judge another,

you do not define them,

you define yourself.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go.

All you have to do is write one true sentence.

Write the truest sentence that you know.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Law and order.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.