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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings, and all beings in his own self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

A sacred thing is timely silence, and better than any speech.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

It pays to know the enemy—not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.