The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things
—Miyamoto Musashi
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
—Marcus Aurelius
The most offensive is not their lying – one can always forgive lying – lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth – what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything will be difficult, if there’s no dream.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. – C.S. Lewis
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course.
—Laozi
How amiable and beautiful a thing it is to see persons thankful for kindness.
—Jonathan Edwards
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
—Henry Ford
He that will sorely revenge the least opposition that is or shall be made to him by others, was content to undergo any thing, all things, for believers.
—John Owen
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
—Aldous Huxley
“[…] I must mention one other thing that I know; it is that faith in Christ can save a man from every sort of fear in life and in death.”
The kinder and more rational a person is, the more he recognizes himself in others. A stupid, unkind person thinks that all other people are alien to him. A wise and kind person knows that the most valuable thing within him is also within every other person.
—Leo Tolstoy
For it all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are in themselves.
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
—Carl Jung
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
—Charles Darwin
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
—Carl Jung
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
—Henry Ford
What we can do and what God can do are two very different things.
— Charles Spurgeon
Throw away morality and justice, and people will do the right thing.
—Laozi
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
—Henry Ford
Wisdom begins only when one takes things as they are.
So it is a healing attitude when one can agree with the facts as they are, only then can we thrive.
—Carl Jung
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
—Plato
Wealth is the number of things one can do without.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement.
—Henry Ford
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Things do not change; we change.
—Henry David Thoreau
The things that we love tell us what we are.
—Thomas Aquinas