Wisdom

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Each of us has a sophisticated system that monitors internal pain and pleasure, and calculates the optimal behavior possible in it.

Humans have bodies, but few of us explore their full capacities.

Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of either wealth, health or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations.

The supreme commandment of the rest of the day is this: make the best use of your time.

It's not the pursuit of happiness that makes us happy, it's the happiness that comes from the pursuit.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Pessimism is a strategy for seeing the future as fixed.

Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.