"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
-Albert Einstein
Our lives are best not when we're seeking our own happiness or comfort. Focusing on such blinds us to the real joy of finding the good, marveling at the beauty, and finding even a tiny glimpse of the truth that pervades the universe, but which remains just out of reach for those contemplating too closely if they are comfortable or happy.
Happiness is found in truth, not truth in happiness.
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-Albert Einstein
Success comes to those that have failed enough.
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
-Albert Einstein
Where wonder and joy are allowed, great mysteries are solved and beauty is revealed.
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause as best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
-Albert Einstein
For each of us there is a choice: to lie down, give up, and accept our powerlessness to the unstoppable tide of human history. Or to stand up, brace against the tide, and alter its course – even if only by the smallest margin. The collective course of events is determined by individual effort – or the lack thereof.
In the end, we will reap what we sow.
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
- Albert Einstein
Keep it simple, and you will rule the world.
"Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
-Albert Einstein
Nature doesn't need our understanding, as much as it needs our respect.
"When you are courting a nice girl and hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
- Albert Einstein
It's relatively simple. Time contracts when you're holding the hand of a pretty girl.
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-Albert Einstein
Work hard, have fun, and remember it's usually best to listen instead of talk.
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
-Albert Einstein
An occasional bad attitude is human nature. Making a habit of it is becomes a character trait. The decision is yours. And mine.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
Even the faintest and furthest star, resting at the very edge of the universe, implies a boundary. What knows no bounds is the depth to which the folly of Man can reach.
