Category: Smart Sayings

Smart saying. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. —Henry David Thoreau

Smart saying. I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. —Henry David Thoreau

Smart saying. The person who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist. —Bertrand Russell

Smart saying. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. —Michel de Montaigne

Smart saying. When people are being unjustly oppressed they should not let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. —Malcolm X

Smart saying. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Smart saying. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. —Buddha

Smart saying. It is difficult not to write satire. —Juvenal

Smart saying. If you possessed the rarest of elements, the most precious gem, how would you treat it? And what if you knew it was you? Never again, until the end of time, will God see through your eyes. I invite you to come to terms with this truth and live accordingly. —Shahar Rabi

Smart saying. You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. —Alan Watts

Smart saying. This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view. —Albert Hofmann

Smart saying. The worst-tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong. —Wilson Mizner

Smart saying. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. —Henry David Thoreau

Smart saying. Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. —Henry David Thoreau

Smart saying. Ninety degrees at four in the morning is not fair. —Rudyard Kipling

Smart saying. A meditative state is pure perception: not being conceptual about the here-and-now. That’s what most zen discipline is about: not past-tripping, not future-tripping, and not being conceptual in the here-and-now. —Stephen Gaskin

Smart saying. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears. —Henry David Thoreau

Smart saying. I wish I loved the human race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I loved the way it walks; I wish I liked the way it talks; and when I’m introduced to one I wish I thought what jolly fun! —Sir Walter Raleigh

Smart saying. Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Smart saying. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. —Leo Tolstoy