You Are You

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

Learn From Experience

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Help Someone Else

If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.

Nothing is Predestined

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

Greatest Gift

Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Feel Deeply

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Distant Generations

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Be Yourself

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Experience, experience

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Dream Dreams

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Friend and Enemy

He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, While he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.

Be Very Careful

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.

Young and Old

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Missing Drop

Each of us feels that we are just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less without that missing drop.

Again and Again

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Don't Worry!

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Deadness

A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.

Time is Eternity

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Have a Soul

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Fear of Unknown

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Friendships

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather is one of those things that give value to survival.

The Silence

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends

Stay and Leave

Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, can forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.

Our Time Machines

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

For Just Once

Run your fingers through my soul. For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.

Don't Panic

Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.

Best Friends

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

Humility

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Proportions

The value of a relationship is in direct proportion to the time that you invest in the relationship.

Tell Them

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.