“Art is not a thing; it is a way.”
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.”
“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”
“Above all, do not forget your duty to love yourself.”
“The glory of life is not never falling. The true glory consists in rising each time we fall.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
Variant: Imagination is more imortant than Knowledge
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
“Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.”
Detached Thoughts http://books.google.com/books?id=vVdSAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Marriage+is+the+cure+of+love+and+friendship+the+cure+of+marriage%22&pg=PA384#v=onepage, first published in Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, volume 5 (1847)
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
As quoted by Marlene Dietrich, who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
Papa Hemingway (1966)
Variant: Never mistake motion for action.
“I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.”
Pages 128-9.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983)
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.”
The Authority
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
