Poems List

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Today is yours to shape. Create a masterpiece!"

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

When your intent and your actions are aligned, you are speaking directly to God."

Real and solid happiness springs from moderation.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

Although time seems to fly by, it never travels faster than one day at a time. Each day is a new opportunity to live your life to the fullest"

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Your dream is a reality that is just waiting for you to materialize it!"

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

The excellent becomes the permanent.

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with."

We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.

Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking.

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go."

There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man vacillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them.