philosiblog https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands and then eat just one of those pieces. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Silence is safer than speech. In a race it’s right to want to win but not cheat. So in life; strive for what’s yours, but don’t take others have striven for. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf. From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. Success and rest don’t sleep together. The whole is more than the sum of its parts Be here now. Be somewhere else later. Is that so complicated? What does it mean to be slandered? Stand by a stone and slander it. If a man listens like a stone, what effect has the slanderer? Beware of the person of one book. The truth can make people angrier than a lie. Tell it anyway. Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. To you all you have appears small; to me all I have appears great. Being concerned about others does not mean you forgo fulfilling your own needs, but that if you do help others there is mutual benefit. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. The quality of our actions, whether they are positive or negative, depends on our motivation. This is why we have to transform our minds. We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is “good,” because it is good, if “bad” because it works in us patience, humility, and hope. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Those who haven’t committed to mastery have resigned themselves to mediocrity. A fall into a ditch makes you wiser. Only the educated are free. Every step you take, is a step away from where you used to be. No new post tonight. One kind word can warm three winter months. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. Your descendants shall gather your fruits. Don’t let the darkness from your past block the light of joy in your present. Money is human happiness in the abstract. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Be proud of who you are and not ashamed of how someone else sees you. Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I’d like to see you in better living conditions. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. Examine men’s ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue. The higher our position the more modestly we should behave. Worry is a misuse of imagination. You can’t buy inner peace or wisdom with money. You have to create them within yourself. If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs. If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.