65 Posts found for Author: Unknown

Tarde o temprano aprenderemos que los amores más grandes pueden terminar en una sola noche. Que los mejores amigos pueden transformarse en grandes desconocidos y que éstos pueden convertirse en grandes amigos.

Tarde o temprano, aprenderemos que nunca terminamos de conocer a alguien, ni siquiera a nosotros mismos. Que el ”nunca más” nunca se cumple, y que el ”para siempre” siempre se termina.

Tarde o temprano, … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Personal Improvement, Wisdom

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Freedom | Liberty, Happiness, Insight, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

If you aren’t happy with all that you have, neither will you be happy with all you lack.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Relationships

True friends say good things behind your back and bad things to your face.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Relationships

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Personal Improvement

If we don’t feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we’d be happy with more?

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Gratitude, Personal Improvement

A man once told The Buddha, “I want happiness.” The Buddha replied, “First, remove ‘I’, that’s ego. Then remove ‘want’, that’s desire. And now all you’re left with is Happiness.”

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Happiness, Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior

The most dangerous risk of all is spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

There’s always some truth behind “just kidding”,
knowledge behind “I don’t know,”
emotion behind “I don’t care,”
and pain behind “it’s okay”.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Psychology | Behavior

The true measure of [a man’s character] is how well he treats those people who cannot possibly help him.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior

A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience by the sensei.
“What do you wish from me?” the master asked.
“I wish to be your student and be the finest karateka in the land,” the boy replied. “How long must I study?”
“Ten years at least,” the master answered.
“Ten years is … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Insight, Personal Improvement

I would much rather live a life full of “oh wells” than a life full of “what ifs.”

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

Discussions are always better than arguments, because an argument is to find out who is right, and a discussion is to find out what is right.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Communication, Personal Improvement, Relationships

Don’t fall in love with someone who says the right things. Fall in love with someone who does the right things.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Concepts, Love, Personal Improvement, Relationships

Your beliefs don’t make you a free thinker. The ability to change your beliefs based on new information does.

Author: Unknown | Subject: Thought | Inquiry

Persons who are either too wealthy or too happy in their own lives tend to lose the need of love. It should also serve as a warning that those who are prone to love are equally prone to fear.

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Fear, Love

Fear, laziness and anger. These are the downfall of human beings.

Author: Unknown | Source: Sanskrit Saying | Subjects: Fear, Wisdom

I said a prayer for you today and I know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart although He spoke no word.
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame (I knew you wouldn’t mind)
I asked Him to send treasures of a far more lasting kind!
I asked that He’d be near you at the start of each new day
To grant you health … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Poetry, Religion

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

NOTE: the original source is unclear. I have seen it attributed to Matthew Bennett and Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Author: Unknown | Subject: Wisdom