The beauty of life is not knowing.
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
Access to a school library results in more reading.
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends to satisfy it, and can do so only by the 'negation,' the destruction or at least the transformation, of the desired object: to satisfy hunger, for example, the food must be destroyed or, in any case, transformed. Thus all action is 'negating'.
And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.