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Famous Quotes & Sayings“ If I make this moment happy, it will increase the chances of the next moment being happy also. ” “ I am who I am. So, let me enjoy being this. ” “ Read one quote a day and keep it in mind for that day. ” “ I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. ” “ To see things in the seed, that is genius. ” “ I don't do drugs. I am drugs. ” “ The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal. ” “ Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. ” “ Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ” “ Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ” “ One should count each day a separate life. ” “ I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. ” “ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ” “ I think I am basically a happy person. ” “ A gentle form of encouragement can enable us to believe in ourselves again and renew our optimism and trust. ” “ Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. ” “ The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. ” “ I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ” “ Temper gets you into trouble; pride keeps you there. ” “ An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. ” “ Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. ” “ He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much. ” “ Live simply so that others may simply live. Its a nice idea, but our lives are more complicated and complex than ever. What can you simplify today - your desk, perhaps your thoughts, a meeting? Simple means easy. Simple means asking, "Is this really necessary?" Simple means keeping it short but sweet. Simple means keeping the focus of your attention on what you need to do now. Todays mantra is, "lets keep it simple." ” “ What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. ” “ People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? ” “ Acceptance gives me the experience of being like an angel: never judging, never criticising and never worrying. ” “ Dont become a cockerel who can only crow knowledge. Practise what you preach. ” “ The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said ” “ It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature. ” “ The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. ” “ Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. ” “ Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we flex, others bend. This creates harmony. ” “ The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. ” “ Allow the Source of Being to maintain contact with you: ignore the impressions and opinions of your customary self. If this self were of value in your search, it would have found realization for you. But all it can do is to depend upon others. ” “ The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. ” “ A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ” “ No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ” “ Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. ” “ The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. ” “ It seems to be one of the paradoxes of creativity that in order to think originally, we must familiarize ourselves with the ideas of others. ” “ Truth will always reveal itself at the right moment and in the right place. ” “ One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. ” “ The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. ” “ The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. ” “ You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves. ” “ Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” “ Chop wood, carry water. ” “ Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ” “ There is no difference between the dream and the waking state except that the dream is short and the waking long. ” “ What does your Master teach? ' asked a visitor. ' Nothing, ' said the disciple. ' Then why does he give discourses? ' ' He only points the way — he teaches nothing. ' The visitor couldnt make sense out of this, so the disciple made it clearer: ' If the Master were to teach, we would make beliefs out of his teachings. the Master is not concerned with what we believe — only with what we see. ” “ If we recognise that all inner and outer effects or results in our lives have causes which can be found within ourselves, then we understand karma or the law of sowing and reaping. If we are aware that we have just awoken to this law, and that we are consciously live with this law in our awareness we will also be aware that we were asleep to this law before - perhaps for a long time, possibly many births. It is therefore highly likely we tried to break the law. What we did not know was we cannot break this law. We cannot take anything without having to pay it back at some future stage. We may receive but we may not take - there is a difference. If we have taken then we must payback. Any form of pain or discomfort - mental, emotional or physical - means it is payback time. The universal debt collector has come to knock on our door. Accounts are being settled. If you can regard all pain, from a bump on the head to an emotional crisis, as the settling of a debt, you will be using the oldest wisdom to respond to life in the most enlightened way. The destination, once all accounts are settled, and all debts paid, is true peace and real freedom. Peace of mind and freedom from all pain. ” “ Sweetness is the taste of all virtues. Patience is the fortress of all virtues. Cheerfulness is the evidence of all virtues. ” “ It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of those objects entirely depends. ” “ We can experience exctasy as long we believe in love. ” “ The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. ” “ Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. ” “ Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ” “ Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. ” “ Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. ” “ We do what we can and then make a theory to prove our performance the best. ” “ The heart is like a flower - unless it is open it cannot release its fragrance into the world. The fragrance of the heart is made up of the qualities and virtues of our spirit. Most of us have learned how to keep our heart closed in a world that would trample all over us if we let it. Being open hearted today seems to require tremendous courage. It is a courage which comes only when we realise that no one can hurt us, no matter what they say or do. They may hurt our body, but if we have realised we are spirit, nothing outside can touch us, if we so decide. Little by little, practice opening your heart to those you think have hurt you. Realise it wasnt them that hurt you, it was yourself. And it taught you not to trust and you closed your heart. A closed heart is in need of opening. And when you do, you will have begun to heal yourself. ” “ And it turned out in string theory in the late '80s and early '90s we actually were able to calculate examples where you could really see changes in the topology of spacetime. ” “ To be peaceful is to be free from expectations and to want nothing from anyone. ” “ The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. ” “ I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details. ” “ Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. ” “ I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself. ” “ Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ” “ One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. ” “ Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. ” “ Are you beyond happiness and sorrow? Is your life, your day, a series of peaks and troughs - one minute ecstatic, next minute depressed. If you are up and down, even a little, it probably feels normal, because the swings between such extremes have been with you for so long. But you don't need the ups and downs to make life feel alive. In fact the ups we call happiness are not really happiness but a kind of false interpretation of happiness. Real happiness is not the result of rising out of depression, and it does not result into falling into regular periods of depression. Real happiness is stable, constant, lasting, not dependent on anyone or anything. Sometimes we call it contentment or serenity or joy. But it's not excitement. Excitement will result in depression. Happiness just is. It's hard to imagine it after a life of highs and lows. Faced with the choice of constant, stable contentment and all the ups and downs, some people choose to stay with the ups and downs. And this is called addiction. The ups are dependent on something and that something just does not last forever. To discover real happiness don't pursue it and don't make it dependent on anything. ” “ I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ” “ It is easier to fight for ones principles than to live up to them. ” “ It is all mind or maya (the world illusion). ” “ I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution ” “ Anger causes alot of damage. When someone gets angry, that anger also creates anger in others. It takes two hands to clap. Therefore, if someone gets angry shower him with flowers. ” “ All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ” “ You learn how to cut down trees cutting them down. ” “ If its never our fault, we cant take responsibility for it. If we cant take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. ” “ Those who have faith need no explanation; for those who have no faith, no explanation is possible. ” “ The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. ” “ Of all the gifts of a place by the Sea, perhaps the greatest is the gift of Soul. ” “ How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. ” “ The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. ” “ Beware of the person of one book. ” “ Love sees as a child sees ” “ It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ” “ It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. ” “ You can never enter the same river twice. ” “ Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. ” “ Good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. ” “ Rise above little things. Be a big thinker. You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, dream big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, image big, love big, live big. Carry that list and you'll start feeling big. Be a believer and you'll be an achiever ” “ Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ” “ The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ” “ The less I think about doing something and the faster I just get on with it, the fewer problems I cause myself. Good planning is always helpful, but time spent fretting and procrastinating is a major drain on my energy ” “ Of what use is your learning and your devotions? Does a donkey become wise through living in a library or a mouse acquire holiness from living in a church?" "What is it, then, we need? "A heart." "How does one get that?" The Master would not say. What could he say that they wouldnt turn into a subject to be learned or an object of devotion? ” “ People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. ” “ Everything that comes to us, comes to pass or, more accurately, for us to pass on. Not just the money in our pocket, but wisdom, objects, ideas, even opportunities, all come to us, so that, at the right moment, we can pass them on. This is called flow. Being in the flow means being aware that the river of life is flowing to us at every moment. Being in the flow means accepting whatever comes and putting it to good use, before passing it on. Going with the flow means allowing whatever comes to move on freely, without holding on in any way. If we do not pass on, we are trying to block the flow, and that's when we feel pressure in our life. Pressure is always self-inflicted. Every time you feel 'under pressure' look at what you need to release and to pass on to someone else. Once you do you can ...relax...again. ” “ A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ” “ When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable. ” |
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