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Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.
If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.
The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.
Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.