By Ayn Rand
What goes around, comes around. Keep your circle positive. Speak good words. Think good thoughts. Do good deeds.
It is considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.
When a bird is alive, it eats ants. When bird dies, ants eat it. One tree can be made into million matchsticks but only one matchstick is enough to burn million trees. Circumstances can change at any time. You may be powerful today but time is more powerful than you.
Maturity is when you have the power to destroy someone who did you wrong but you just breathe, walk away and let karma deal with them.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason but I don’t think that there’s a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.
When by the power of evil karma, misery is being tested, may the tutelary deities dissipate the misery.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
God… a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man’s power to conceive.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Do not ever say that the desire to ‘do good’ by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
I’d always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.
I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.
