If at last thou attain the desire of thy life, Cast the world aside, yea, abandon it!
It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.
If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain.
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.
If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.