I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.
A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.
Content is a matter of temperament rather than circumstance.
Those who have been made great have first suffered.
Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.
Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues.
Revolution is obstructed evolution.
So many people have fat bank accounts! But when God wants them to give they can’t give. When God wants them to do certain things they can’t do it – then they’re not really rich. They are not really! Because they do not have the financial abundance to obey God’s will. .
Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.