Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

No man ever became wise by chance.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from parents, teachers, and other authority figures who should know better from their experience. Information is about facts. Education is about wisdom and the knowledge of how to love and survive.

Sometimes in your life you just meet someone or hear something that nudges you on the right path. And that becomes the best advice. It could just be a bit of commonsense said in a way that resonates with something in you. It's nothing new, but because it connects with you it holds meaning for you.

All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing." Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.

See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.