When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.
-Rumi
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
-Dan Zadra
Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.
-Yiddish proverb
A hundred thousand elephants,
A hundred thousand horses,
A hundred thousand mule-drawn chariots,
Are not worth a sixteenth part
Of a single step forward.
-Buddha
Water said to the defiled, "Hurry come to me."
The defiled replied, "But I feel ashamed before the water."
Water said, "But without me how will you wash your shame? How will your filth be removed?"
Shame hinders the faith of the tainted who hide from the water.
-Rumi
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-John Cage
Get one by trade, rather than a thousand as gifts.
-Rabbi Samuel