You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life... →
Sri Aurobindo
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently... →
You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books... →
Paul Auster
People - running from unhappiness, hiding in power - are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.
Richard Avedon
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's no question that in the first years of the Obama... →
John Avlon