If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.
We're all born with an ego – it's a natural part of who we are here. We're only completely without it in death. Fighting against this during life only creates more self-judgement. Plus, only when we love our ego unconditionally are we able to accept everyone else's. This is when it stops being an issue, and your humility and magnificence really shine through.
Study your thoughts and question them. What am I telling myself that is keeping me stuck or holding me back? What is this pattern of thinking that says I'm less than I am, which is absolute magnificence? It's our thoughts that hold us back.
We are committed and if we succeed we'll succeed magnificently, and if we fail it will be a magnificent failure. The magnificence is important.
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.
Humility is that simple, inner life of real greatness, which is indifferent to magnificence, and, surrounded by it all, lives far away in the distant country of a Father's home, with the cross borne silently and self-sacrificingly in the heart of hearts.
The only thing that exists is torment, lyricism, and the magnificence of language.
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. . . . Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.
Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.
There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.
There is within each of us the possibility of magnificence. Every moment is an opportunity to make it manifest. Let the spirit awaken you to a miraculous life.
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance. " Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance.
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
