Magic never dies. It merely fades away.
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.
It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far more invigorating to see it as essential for honing the mind, and as a positive good in itself. For the day that moral issues cease to be fought over is the day the word human disappears from the race.
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible. . . nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Travel doesn't merely broaden the mind. It makes the mind.
Living is merely the chaos of existence.
Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death
Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.
It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.
The ego urges you to accomplish, while the soul merely asks you to enjoy the process.
Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.