
about pleasure
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."
about wisdom
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
about gratitude
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."
about choices in life
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
about change
"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."
about attention
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
about Giving up
"Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go."
about happy life
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
about difference
"People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
about opportunity, success
"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future."
about think
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law."
about worry
"Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night."
about age
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
about failures
"There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."