Our lives might not have come with a manual, or an instruction booklet to teach us how to live our lives, but life happening, unfurling around us is itself serving as instructions for us. If we pay more attention to what is going on in life, we will be doing all right.
You might not realize it, but all these life instructions were being recorded. They are called Aphorisms.
Aphorisms motivate and inspire because they teach a philosophical or moral truth which is relevant to our experiences in life. The relevance is what makes them fascinating and interesting. Have a look at today's selection of Truisms.
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Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. - Wendell Berry
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Everyone, by his thoughts, deeds, and personality, impresses his footsteps on the sands of time. Such footsteps, if they are of worth, cause others to follow in time. - Unknown
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. - Unknown
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us, and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves. - Marquis de Vauvenargues
The pleasure we derive from doing favours is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. - Eric Hofler
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. - Orison Swett Marden
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. - Isadora Duncan
To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. - George Washington
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
You judge yourself by what you think you can achieve, others judge you by what have achieved. - Confucius
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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