It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself.
The painter who has no doubt about his own ability will attain very little.
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.
This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
The hardest thing to attain. . . is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
Happiness and Prosperity are now within our Reach; but to attain and preserve them must depend upon our own Wisdom and Virtue.
We can never attain to perfection while we have an affection for any imperfection.
Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve. '
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
Bahá'í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other's character. This eternal bond should be made secure by a firm covenant, and the intention should be to foster harmony, fellowship and unity and to attain everlasting life.
Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.
Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.