I can't overlook any opponent because all fighters are dangerous. Every fighter is dangerous.
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.
You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Let ur love be ur state of being ,, NOT that u fall in love , but just that u r loving. . it is simply ur nature. . . You can be in state of love only if u drop the old mind pattern of relationships ,,,, LOVE IS NOT A RELATIONSHIP.
Thought is powerless, except it make something outside of itself: the thought which conquers the world is not contemplative but active.
The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.