Poems List

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Never underestimate the power of passion.

Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done."-Steve Maraboli

From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

Perseverance and audacity generally win.

Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence.

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.

If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!

Beside the streamlet seated, mark how life glides on: That sign, how swift each moment goes, to me?s enough. Behold this world?s delights, and view its various pains: If not to you, the joy it shows to me?s enough.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.

As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!

It is true that men are no fit judges of themselves, because commonly they are partial to their own cause; yet it is as true that he who will dispose himself to judge indifferently of himself can do it better than any body else, because a man can see farther into his own mind and heart than any one else can.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

We ask ourselves all kinds of questions, such as why does a peacock have such beautiful feathers, and we may answer that he needs the feathers to impress a female peacock, but then we ask ourselves, and why is there a peacock? And then we ask, why is there anything living? And then we ask, why is there anything at all? And if you tell some advocate of scientism that the answer is a secret, he will go white hot and write a book. But it is a secret. And the experience of living with the secret and thinking about it is in itself a kind of faith.”