Echoes

Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

I would prefer inarticulate wisdom to loquacious foolishness.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like when done to yourself, do not do to others.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.