Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.
Wait for the idea. It may not come at first, but you must be patient, never doubting, waiting in faith. It will come.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.
To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Don't decide on a dog based on looks either, much like with people, looks and first impressions can be deceiving.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
The intellect is a cold thing and a merely intellectual idea will never stimulate thought in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Mike Tyson always had a big heart, but one of his problems is that he's short. And he's got kind of a personal attitude. But that don't make him a great fighter.
Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations.
Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.
ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
